Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert Hoover is the best man for the Republican nomination, in my opinion. He has the heart, the mind, the experience, and the education to fill the position. But he lacks the means properly to articulate his power. No doubt he is the popular choice of the Republican party, but it does not follow that he will receive the nomination. His position is analogous to that of Leonard Wood in 1920; he is too good for the nomination. The situation which developed in 1920 may yet be repeated in 1928. You remember that at that time, after much wrangling, Harding...
...entertaining, musical play. But in honesty one must confess that even this one consolation is absent. The costumes are colorful, but that in itself goes but a short way; the music is innocuous, and only one tune, "Play Gypsics", at all demands attention. It has been and gone in popular fancy having had its hey-day a year...
...bridging of the chasm between secondary school and college is a riddle that has perplexed the educational engineers of America. In conventions, in college conferences, in most of the magazines of the popular intellectualism, the question has been put again and again. The mass of data is huge and mounting, but the man who can make a great highway, smooth-paved and uninterrupted, of what is now two roads connected by a bridge of San Luis, Rey, has not yet appeared...
...feature of the supper intermission, C. E. Henderson '28 and R. M. Whittemore '29 will render popular music in duet on two planes...
...Daniel Ser-ruys, Permanent Chief of the Ministry of Commerce. His schedule is primarily designed to win farmer votes at the spring election. It sharply reduces the duties on farm tractors, doubles or triples those on many foodstuffs, and abolishes the duty on U. S. wheat seed, now popular in France. Sugar, from the U. S., which France has not heretofore imported, should flow in if the bill becomes law, for it would reduce the duty on sugar from 290 francs per 100 kilos to 100 francs...