Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This produced a very delicate political situation. Since Senator Robinson has been promised a place on the Supreme Court, there are two chief candidates to succeed him as majority leader. One, favored by most of the older Democratic Senators, is Senator Byrnes. The other, not so popular with the Senators but preferred by the President is Senator Barkley. Senator Barkley not yet majority leader nevertheless openly led the Administration's fight, rallying several more or less radically inclined freshmen Senators such as Schwartz of Wyoming and Pepper of Florida. He was credited with having been given the go-ahead...
...third time since Socialist Léon Blum formed his Popular Front Government (TIME, June 15, 1936), scared money was in flight from France last week, rushing to other havens at such alarming pace that the Bank of France, striving to tempt its return, had to jack up the already high Paris central bank discount rate of 4% to the "panic rate" of 6%. The Blum Cabinet for the third time in nine months was desperately short of cash. First time this happened (TIME, Oct. 5), Finance Minister Vincent Auriol devalued the franc by 40%, carried on with the "profits...
...last French election gave the Popular Front a "safe majority" in the Chamber composed of Radical Socialists, Socialists and Communists. These last have no Cabinet seats. At the emergency session it was the Radical Socialists and Socialists who fell to quarreling, with luckless Premier Blum fluttering between them in his accustomed role as the dove of Popular Front peace. After almost two hours' wrangle it was decided to ask Parliament to grant the Cabinet dictatorial powers over French economy and finance for six weeks. Once these had been voted, the Cabinet could then in a more tranquil atmosphere decide...
...incredible anywhere else. Along with the discussion of scholarly and original papers like that of Professor Newton Arvin of Smith College on Roots of American Literature, there were bewilderingly hair-splitting literary squabbles that ranged from attacks on Gone With The Wind to attacks on Stalin and the French Popular Front. Now and then there were Dostoevskian interludes when embittered poets or philosophers interrupted the proceedings with autobiographical statements or expositions of their personal credos. Since in any group of 360 U. S. writers there are sure to be some who have commented unfavorably on the work of others present...
...answer to popular demand there will be two more showings of the Tercentenary Film at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, tomorrow at 10:30 o'clock in the morning and at 2:30 in the afternoon. The program will consist of a new Pathe "short" entitled "John Harvard's Birthplace", the "Harvard Special", and the Tercentenary Film...