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GreenbackerIn US history, a supporter of an alliance of agrarian and industrial organizations 1874-88, known as the Greenback Labor Party, which campaigned for currency inflation by increasing the paper dollars (‘greenbacks’) in circulation. In 1880 the party's presidential nominee polled only 300,000 votes; the movement was later superseded by Populism. |
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He had been a reform member of the city council, he had been a Greenbacker, a Labor Unionist, a Populist, a Bryanite--and after thirty years of fighting, the year 1896 had served to convince him that the power of concentrated wealth could never be controlled, but could only be destroyed. |
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