Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warnings to economize," concluded Dr. Schacht, "are never popular. To spend is pleasanter than to save, and the places to spend money always are more numerous than those which have to provide the money...
Handsome, bemustached Democrat McWilliams found himself pitted against the most popular Mayor Cleveland has elected since city managership was abandoned in 1929. Son of a professor of civil engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harold Burton migrated to Cleveland fresh from Harvard Law School, started practicing in 1912. He rode into the City Hall as a reform candidate in 1935. Now chunky, athletic and 49, Mayor Burton arrives at City Hall each morning at 8:30, works twelve hours a day, takes pride in his clean-up of the Cleveland police force, and although a Republican, claims credit for wangling...
...Trotskyite Communists staying away. After a series of emotional speeches the Cortes voted unanimous confidence in the Negrin Government and adjourned for the day. Two facts were important. Into the hall to take his seat stepped 75-year-old Manuel Portela Valladares, Premier of Spain in 1936 when the Popular Front took power, and politically about as Red as U. S. Senator Carter Glass. Since the beginning of the war he has been a voluntary exile in Paris. Last week he promised allegiance to the Negrin Government, brought three other conservative Deputies with him as a sign of truce between...
Orthodox churchmen, custodians of what they believe is the only sure cure for the soul-sickness of many a confused modern, view with jealous alarm the spiritual patent medicines of healers, swamis, yogis, fortunetellers, popular "psychologists." But in Manhattan last week appeared a lecturer on popular psychology who was notable because he, Dr. Albert Garcia de Quevedo, is a good Catholic, working under Catholic auspices and billed as the only U. S. Catholic layman lecturing on "practical psychology...
...jewelry salesman named James Burns, gave her. Her mother, Mrs. Peter Miley, whose second husband, like her first, is a structural iron worker, had kept a meticulous diary of her daughter's 2,096 days in bed. The doctor in the case, Dr. Eugene Fagan Traut, a closemouthed, popular suburban doctor, counted on being asked to publish a sequel to the clinical record he has kept of the young woman's stupor (TIME, April...