Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most people thought Canabal would pop up in the Cardenas Cabinet as Minister of Education, to scourge the pious with fresh assaults of Godless teaching. When President Cardenas last week gave Canabal the portfolio of Agriculture a good many people breathed easier. They thought it meant that the new Administration will lean toward more drastic enforcement of Mexico's radical expropriation laws ("Land to the peons!") and ease up a bit on the Church. Taking no chances, pious mobsters showered Canabal with stones when they caught his motor car leaving the home of ex-President Calles at Cuernavaca, screamed "Curse...
Oldest team in the League are the Green Bay Packers, who won the championship in 1929, 1930, 1931. Sponsored by the Blair Brothers (packers) in 1918 and owned by 1,000 Green Bay citizens, the Packers have attracted crowds as big as 16,000 to Green Bay, Wis. (pop. 34,900). Most of the Packers' regulars live in Green Bay, hold municipal jobs in addition to positions on the team...
...Municipal Council of the new, white all-Jewish City Tel Aviv (pop.: 105,000) took to rent-fixing to curb speculation. In New York U. S. Zionist Louis Lipsky said: "Palestine is building itself up and has all the symptoms of a boom." Begging for more idealism in Zionism, he reported seeing in Tel Aviv and elsewhere the same Jewish "brokers, speculators and profiteers that used to be seen in The Bronx during the building boom...
...Vermilion, Ohio (pop. 1,464) one evening last week, neither the poetry of Robert Browning nor the novels of Willa Cather were uppermost in the minds of Mrs. Marvell Snyder, wife of the school superintendent, or Mrs. Bessie Roscoe, wife of the Vermilion News editor, as they finished the supper dishes and hurried around to the home of Mrs. Zella English, wife of the Congregational minister. Occasion was a meeting of the Sorosis Club, Vermilion's select female literary-social organization. For the past five months culture had been almost forgotten as the Sorosis Club and all Vermilion rocked...
Said Glenn ("Pop") Warner, onetime Stanford Coach who began coaching at Temple last year: "I know of no team in the East or South that will have a clearer right to make the trip [to Pasadena] and I hope if we go to the Rose Bowl, we meet Stanford." Unbeaten Temple, with a giant sophomore back named Dave Smukler who passed, kicked and ran like an All-American, gave point to his boast, 22-to-0, against Villanova...