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  • Invoking William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, the Black Cross Alliance called on the Obama administration and the state of Illinois to halt billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for multinational coal corporations, and bring an end to the scandalous coal wars in Illinois by re-investing in a sustainable clean energy policy for the future for the coalfield regions.

    Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal (PHOTOS) Jeff Biggers 2010

  • Invoking William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, the Black Cross Alliance called on the Obama administration and the state of Illinois to halt billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for multinational coal corporations, and bring an end to the scandalous coal wars in Illinois by re-investing in a sustainable clean energy policy for the future for the coalfield regions.

    Jeff Biggers: BREAKING: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal (PHOTOS) Jeff Biggers 2010

  • Ever since William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic convention, after which the populists merged their movement and their party with the Democrats, the political party I am proud to call mine has on economic issues been an uncomfortable coalition of those working-class populists and urban business leaders.

    Mike Lux: Restoring the Balance Mike Lux 2010

  • Yet liberals largely ignore Bryan's legacy because they are embarrassed by his role in seeking to ban the teaching of evolutionary theory as fact, most famously in 1925 during the Scopes Monkey Trial.

    Five Best: Scott Farris 2012

  • He tied that long-past debate to L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. That went over so well in the classroom, at least as compared to asking students to read William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, that Littlefield published his idea in an American Quarterly essay called "The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism."

    Parable? No, Just Full of It 2009

  • Ever since William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic convention, after which the populists merged their movement and their party with the Democrats, the political party I am proud to call mine has on economic issues been an uncomfortable coalition of those working-class populists and urban business leaders.

    Mike Lux: Restoring the Balance Mike Lux 2010

  • He tied that long-past debate to L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. That went over so well in the classroom, at least as compared to asking students to read William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech, that Littlefield published his idea in an American Quarterly essay called "The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism."

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • At the time of writing there is no word of any plans inside Headingley to introduce the Aunt Bessie's Yorkshire Puddings Moment Of Success, or to designate any outbreaks of six-hitting as a Bryan's Fish & Seafood Restaurant Maximum.

    IPL4 is the ideal accompaniment to the parochial intrigue of ECC112 | Barney Ronay 2011

  • Ever since William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech at the 1896 Democratic convention, after which the populists merged their movement and their party with the Democrats, the political party I am proud to call mine has on economic issues been an uncomfortable coalition of those working-class populists and urban business leaders.

    Mike Lux: Restoring the Balance Mike Lux 2010

  • But then, in 1965, Lawrence Levine explored Bryan's complicated and nuanced concerns about evolution, which had less to do with the science than with how the "survival of the fittest" ethos was being applied to social sciences in a way that threatened progressive reforms and society's most vulnerable members.

    Five Best: Scott Farris 2012

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