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Bryan's words gave rise to later economic and political philosophies, including Huey Long's 1930s Share Our Wealth program, with its trigger phrase, " Every Man a King " inspired by Bryan's speech.
Long created the Share Our Wealth program in 1934 with the motto " Every Man a King ", proposing new wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on corporations and individuals to curb the poverty and homelessness endemic nationwide during the Great Depression.
Long often attempted to upstage FDR and the congressional leadership by mounting populist appeals of his own, most notably his " Share Our Wealth " program.
In 1934, he unveiled an economic plan he called Share Our Wealth.
In February 1934, Long introduced his Share Our Wealth plan over a nationwide radio broadcast.
" In 1934, Long held a public debate with Norman Thomas, the leader of the Socialist Party of America, on the merits of Share Our Wealth versus socialism.
With the Senate unwilling to support his proposals, in February 1934 Long formed a national political organization, the Share Our Wealth Society.
A network of local clubs led by national organizer Reverend Gerald L. K. Smith, the Share Our Wealth Society was intended to operate outside of and in opposition to the Democratic Party and the Roosevelt administration.
Then he would break from the Democrats and form a third party using the Share Our Wealth plan as its basis.
This candidate would split the progressive vote with Roosevelt, causing the election of a Republican but proving the electoral appeal of Share Our Wealth.
The minister at the funeral service was Gerald L. K. Smith, co-founder of Share Our Wealth and subsequently of the America First Party, and the founder of the " Christ of the Ozarks " passion play in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
Smith, leader of the Share Our Wealth movement
* Gerald L. K. Smith-founder of Share Our Wealth Movement, grew up in Viroqua
The key planks of the Share The Wealth platform included:
The official slogan of the Share The Wealth movement was " Every Man a King ( But No One Wears a Crown )", which also became the title of a song co-written by Long in 1935 to promote his proposal.
Huey Long was a populist, extremely popular in his home state of Louisiana, but many saw his Share Our Wealth proposal as an unworkable plan that threatened the reforms of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal.
Many also suspected that Huey Long was planning on using the Share Our Wealth Society as a vehicle for mounting a third party challenge to Roosevelt during the 1936 Presidential election.
After Long's assassination, the control of the Share The Wealth Society fell to Gerald L. K. Smith, who was widely viewed as a political demagogue.
Smith brought the Share The Wealth Society into a brief coalition with the followers of radio priest Charles Coughlin and old-age pension advocate Francis Townsend in support of the short-lived Union Party, a third party effort which ran William Lemke of North Dakota for President in 1936, but under his leadership, the Share Our Wealth movement quickly fell apart.
*" Share The Wealth "
The Union Party was a short-lived political party in the United States, formed in 1936 by a coalition of radio priest Father Charles Coughlin, old-age pension advocate Francis Townsend, and Gerald L. K. Smith, who had taken control of Huey Long's Share Our Wealth movement after Long's assassination in 1935.

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Only the song " Lion's Share ," ended up on the Columbia soundtrack LP: it was featured for about a minute in the movie, during a video-booth murder scene in an S & M club.
On July 15, 1931, a white mob raided a meeting of the Alabama Share Croppers Union which was being held in a church in Camp Hill.
Prior to Jersey Shore, the town was also the setting of MTV's True Life: I Have A Summer Share, which was filmed in Seaside Heights, as was MTV's True Life: I'm a Jersey Shore Girl from 2004, which was one of the network's first stories of guidettes looking for the perfect guido.
In 2007 19, 000 pounds of food were collected for the Marion Polk Food Share and $ 17, 100 was received in cash.
Among the Giorno-released recordings was You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With, a double-album shared with Giorno and William Burroughs ( the original release had one LP side for each artist, with the fourth side triple-grooved, one for each, so you'd get a different one, depending on where you put the needle down ).
Lion's Share was released in late 1972, after Savoy Brown had previewed tracks on their extensive tours earlier that year.
In September 2010, Talk of the Nation was broadcast on 328 public radio stations, and had a weekly audience of 3. 2 million and an AQH Share of 605, 700.
While at Magdalene, he wrote a musical, Share My Lettuce, which was produced in London in 1957 by Michael Codron, and performed by Maggie Smith and Kenneth Williams ( music by Patrick Gowers and Keith Statham ).
Christine was the first woman to take the role of ' Narrator ' in the Rocky Horror Show during its 30th Anniversary tour, appeared in pantomime at Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford as " Bossy Fair Battleaxe " in Jack & the Beanstalk, toured her One-Woman Show ' Share an Evening with Christine Hamilton ', and appeared several times in The Vagina Monologues, including in the West End at Wyndhams Theatre.
The libretto and score were revised: The secondary romance between Tommy Keeler and Winnie Tate was completely eliminated, including their songs " I'll Share it All With You " and " Who Do You Love, I Hope?
In addition, a new Fair Share Health Levy was established and charged to high-income earners to help pay for mounting health care costs.
Yet the program was a Eurovision audience of 14, 380, 000 ( 85. 2 % Share ) share the record for getting the most watched moment in the history of television in Spain, which existed from the private ( 1990 ) and also from that there were a barometer of hearings ( 1993 ).
The Employee Share Ownership Trust, which represents workers at the company, was to remain a minority shareholder.
Although many people expected Huey Long, the colorful Democratic senator from Louisiana, to run as a third-party candidate with his " Share Our Wealth " program as his platform, his bid was cut short when he was assassinated in September 1935.

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In 1996, a pilot bicycle share project known as the Orange Bike Project was organized in Tucson, Arizona by Bootstraps to Share, a homeless advocacy organization inspired by the Bikes Not Bombs movement.
* Share International, a religious movement founded by British painter Benjamin Creme
Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith ( February 27, 1898 – April 15, 1976 ) was an American clergyman and political organizer, who became a leader of the Share Our Wealth movement during the Great Depression and later the Christian Nationalist Crusade.
Unlike Long, who had been relatively tolerant on racial issues, Smith took the Share Our Wealth movement in the direction of white supremacy.
Smith briefly led the Share Our Wealth movement initiated by Huey P. Long during the Great Depression.
During the Great Depression, Smith served as an organizer for Huey P. Long's Share Our Wealth movement and led it briefly following Long's assassination in 1935.
: See main articles: Share Our Wealth, Charles Coughlin, Francis Townsend, EPIC movement, and Critics of the New Deal.

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