Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the prospect was presented of lesser Ambassadors and Ministers flocking to Capitol Hill to confer with lesser Senators. This prospect recalled the trouble of 1793 when Citizen Genet, as Republican France's first Minister to the U. S., attempted to make a popular appeal for his country over the grim neutrality of George Washington's Cabinet, thereby causing his downfall as a diplomat and prompting the passage of the Logan Act to prevent, under penalties, U. S. citizens from dealing directly with foreign governments...
...Wilson's going halted, at least temporarily, the agitation of a prime popular question: Is the Methodist Board a "lobby"? Is Dr. Wilson an arch-lobbyist? The question had been most recently raised by Congressman George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts...
...North Pole (1926) the Fund sent his plane around the U. S. to focus attention on the development of aircraft and the need for municipal airports. The Fund sent Col. Lindbergh and his plane to at least one city in each of the 48 States to increase popular interest in aviation. When the French Flyers Nungesser & Coli disappeared while crossing the Atlantic westward (1927) Daniel Guggenheim gave $25,000 for an expedition to locate them. Last December he gave the Chilean Government $500,000 to establish full aeronautical instruction...
...could walk at nine months, talk at a year, and had a remarkable vocabulary of bad language before she was three. . . . The only doll she had was a cannon-sponge on a used fuse-stick, dressed in a soldier's waistcoat." When she grew up she was popular for more reasons than the obvious one. The soldiers said: "She'll die in her shoes, like the rest of us. . . . Let's drink to . . . the black eyes of Julie...
...Rickard died (January 1929), and Onetime-champion Dempsey went vaguely into promoting and got himself talked about for night-life and a chorus-girl (TIME, June 10), the chance has grown more and more solidly golden for some young man to smash his way forward and, while satisfying the popular demand for a Greatest Fighter of Them All, have a good time and amass a fortune...