Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civil war was not to be found this week in Aragon, in Catalonia or in Valencia, but in France. The army, navy and air force of the French Republic are among the most powerful in Europe, but was it certain that French Premier Leon Blum, although he heads a Popular Front Cabinet, wants France to fight on such an issue...
...sympathy sit-downs were staged at the Farman, Caudron and other vital French warplane factories. All this was extremely peaceable, without riots or even the summoning of police, but everyone remembered that in 1936 over 1,000,000 workers walked out as a means of: 1) pressing the first Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Léon Blum to legislate promised vital concessions to Labor; 2) coercing his political enemies of the Right into abandoning some of their opposition. Last week the workers appeared in an unorganized way to be again trying to drive and lead Léon Blum...
Orator Göring, who was wearing for this popular occasion scarcely any of his medals, and these few on the brown shirt of a simple Storm Trooper, roared that "the courts" will deal with former Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg because he "criminally" ordered a "fake plebiscite," later canceled on the demand of Hitler (TIME, March 21). "None of Schuschnigg's supporters died for their convictions!" jeered Daredevil Göring. "But some of them fled with the cash box! . . . The tyrant was swept away and our troops marched in as brothers of a liberated people." Since there were undoubtedly...
...when Fools for Scandal was last week presented to U. S. cinemaudiences, Actor-Prince Mike's lowbrowed, pseudo-Romanoff visage had joined the innumerable faces on the cutting room floor. What remained was more fustian than fun, a pursuit through high & low worlds of a popular, penniless French marquis working his way, via the scullery, into a cinema star's boudoir. In spite of Actress Lombard's strident earthiness, the result is as unearthly as Actor Gravet's French-flavored, concave British inflection, as wooden as Charlie McCarthy-whom Actor Gravet, in claw-hammer coat & starchy...
...mathematicians made great efforts to keep the party a secret from Dr. Infeld. It was not so difficult to keep it a secret from Dr. Einstein. On the day of the party this week a book† will be published of which Drs. Einstein & Infeld are coauthors, the first "popular" book on physics to which Albert Einstein has ever lent his name...