Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Favorite Son Goff beat Candidate Hoover. It was a preferential primary, leaving the delegates uninstructed, and three of the 19 delegates elected were regarded as Hooverites. But the popular vote stood-Goff 120,337; Hoover, 105,876. The usual comments were made: 1) That the Hoover boom had passed its peak, would now collapse; 2) That the Beaver Man had made a splendid showing...
...amount of work done rather than the kind was evidently what President Coolidge had to admire. Reapportionment of popular representation and disposal of the Boulder Dam bill were the gravest omissions. Disagreement on farm-relief and failure to vote at least some of the Big Navy, after Europe had been made to understand the U. S. really needs more ships, were the gravest embarrassments...
...Guinness Brewing Co. of Dublin; for failure to provide. Mr. Lee's petition charging mental cruelty had been denied. In 1910 Mr. Mellon, 26 years her senior, sued for divorce. Children of the Mellon-McMullen marriage are Ailsa, who married David K. E. Bruce in 1927 and Paul, popular Yale student...
...Pops, ground with the typical fanfare and critical phraseology, have the season continued along the straight path upon which Mr. Casella has guided them so sturdily during his short period of directorship. In the last analysis, of course, the Pops must remain popular concerts, and in the present state of musical appreciation, this means the playing night after night throughout the season of those excerpts from important music that have the widest appeal. But that even here there are possibilities beyond the March Slave and The Flight of the Bumblebee has been realized by the conductor...
...Author of the widely popular Travel Diary of a Philosopher & The Book of Marriage...