His promotions ( in print, speeches and even radio talks ) probably contributed to the Florida real estate boom of the 1920s . " The Great Commoner " Bryan became rich from his real estate investments and promotion fees.
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After some weeks'negotiation, in the course of which the firmness and moderation of " " The Great Commoner " ", as he had come to be called, contrasted favourably with the characteristic tortuosities of the crafty Bath.
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When you climb the wide steps to the front door, you can almost hear the Great Commoner regaling those gathered on rocking chairs with a fiery speech about the evils of drink, or how evolutionary hypotheses were just professors'fancy words for " guessing ."
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Middle-class people could still be called commoners however, for example in England Pitt the elder was often called " The Great Commoner ", and this appellation was later used for the 20th-century American anti-elitist campaigner William Jennings Bryan.
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The agrarian element, marching behind the slogan of " free silver " ( i . e . in favor of inflation ), captured the Party in 1896, and nominated the " Great Commoner ", William Jennings Bryan in 1896, 1900 and 1908; he lost every time.
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:: : : : I think, Sluzzelin, that populism in the United States has a better pedigree than it does in Europe, represented in political terms by such figures as William Jennings Bryant, the'Great Commoner', and in cultural terms by movies like Mr Smith Goes to Washington.
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The feud stemmed supposedly from Bryan's alleged belief that Sullivan's election to the national committee had been engineered through fraudulent means ( which was not true ), but in reality it was based in Bryan's long-term antipathy to Sullivan that originated in the Chicago Democratic being a leader of the Gold Democrats, who opposed the Great Commoner in 1896 with their own candidate, Illinois'John M . Palmer.
