Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indianapolis were not "contented." To the polls they went, marked 53,000 ballots for the adoption of a City Manager plan of government, marked 9,000 for the retention of the Mayor-and-Council system. Under the new plan, the city will be governed by seven commissioners, elected by popular vote. The commissioners will select a city manager and a mayor (a member of the commission), but the mayor's duties will be largely along lines of giving visiting celebrities the keys of the city...
Thus, a competition to carry the U. S. public in the air looms between the backers of a 25-year-old Nordic, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who is everybody's hero, and the backers of a 41-year-old Latin, Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, who is as obscure in the popular eye as he is small in stature (5 ft., 1 in.). And yet, it is Mr. Bellanca who designed the Columbia that stayed in the air over the U. S. for 51 hours and later flew 3,905 miles, who carries in his pocket the plans for a plane...
Cross at crosswords, querulous at questions, the public is now invited to play a game which is allegedly neither elevating nor depressing. It used to be called "Categories," but was renamed "Guggenheim" to make it more popular or something.* Authorities agree it is a safe game at mixed parties. The chief requirements for play, besides a "Guggenheim" book, are pencils, paper, patiences...
...with linesmen and Mr. Hagen missing his appointments. With the Lindbergh episode al most over, cynics may rise to call his ovations "hysteria," his re ceptions "sensationalism run riot." But back of the torn paper and the screeching headlines lay a very sincere and very spontaneous out burst of popular emotion. There has been so much commercialism in everything of late - crimes of passion are accompanied by insurance policies and lithe-limbed athletes hold grandstand conferences. Here was one man who did some thing for motives other than there being "money in it," for it is hard ly sentimentalism...
Engaged. Louise Hunter, famed soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan; to Henry Haven Windsor Jr., editor and publisher of Popular Mechanics magazine...