Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this rate, before the primary season is over, a terrific toll of cerebration will have been taken among political commentators. But if Franklin Roosevelt is a major issue in State primaries, it is impossible to calculate precisely: 1) how much he affects the results, and 2) how much the results reflect national trends. As far as the personal popularity and political prestige of Franklin Roosevelt are concerned, direct evidence is more important. Last week's most relevant evidence was a release made by FORTUNE of preliminary figures of its forthcoming (July) Survey. Since the FORTUNE Survey predicted...
Oregon, Governor Charles H. ("Old Iron Pants") Martin, a retired major general and once a Republican, now 74 and a Democrat, supported the New Deal in Congress, was boosted on a Roosevelt ticket in 1934 from Congress into the Governor's chair. But crusty Governor Martin energetically sniped at Secretary Ickes' plans for Bonneville Dam, criticized the NLRB in blistering speeches, blasted "that miserable" Secretary Perkins, ended up by antagonizing both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. Not averse to tweaking even the Roosevelt nose, at Bonneville Dam last year the Governor introduced the gift-bearing...
...season produced no first-rate comedy, and, though its biggest guns were all on the serious side, no important play with social significance. (Of Mice and Men and Golden Boy had social material, but no major social theme.) But social significance ran away with the musical field, providing a tense, pounding strike drama in The Cradle Will Rock, a fresh, spirited revue in Pins and Needles. Best of the straight musicals: Hooray for What!, thanks to the clowning of Ed Wynn, the music of Harold Arlen...
...American people got most of their amusement informally from each other. It was only upon the advent of the Great Boom that the spelling bee and the guitar on the front porch were routed by the billion-dollar entertainment industry of radio and the movies. When, four years ago. "Major" Edward Bowes put on his amateur shows, they were a radio novelty. But this season audience participation in radio has become radio's most pronounced program trend. The high cost of stars, dearth of headline talent and Depression II have all united to give radio entertaining back to people...
Wisconsin's new president, big Clarence Addison Dykstra, facing his first major administrative crisis, quickly defined a liberal by acting like one. He declared himself neutral in the controversy, said the students "must settle their problem as a lesson in self-government." He also hazarded the opinion that the dispute was political, not racial. Said he: "Doubtless in the heat of the Cardinal campaign some opposition to individual Jews has been expressed, but I feel sure that this opposition has not extended further than to specific individuals. I have found no anti-Semitic trend or temper...