Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little but good news had Franklin Roosevelt ever had from the political surveys of FORTUNE, whose poll last autumn indicated his re-election with an error of only about 1% in the popular vote, whose poll in April indicated that 52.6% of the people favored a third term for him. Last week, FORTUNE'S June issue carried a special supplement giving a preview of its July poll on the President's popularity as affected by the Supreme Court issue. This showed a bigger change in his popularity than took place at any time during the campaign. Whereas...
...majority leader to succeed Joe Robinson if he became Justice. The President was understood to favor Alben William Barkley of Kentucky, now assistant leader, who sees eye to eye with the New Deal. Senators were much more inclined to favor James Francis Byrnes of South Carolina, who is more popular although he has differed with the New Deal on occasion. And this dialog was widely quoted...
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...most part Devis painted just such pictures as this one on view in the Fogg. In the middle of the eighteenth century this type had become more popular than portraits, for they suited better the prosperous middle class. To produce them, the painters--under Hogarth's lead--had turned for guidance to the earlier Dutch masters...
...Roman Governor, now thoroughly alarmed, waited watchfully. "Nero's" rule, at first wildly popular, grew into hated tyranny as "Nero's" hangers-on, whom Varro found it harder & harder to control, made hay by killing and confiscating right & left. By the time Cejonius was removed from his post and a new Governor came out from Rome with enough troops to stamp out the rebellion, "Nero's" government was collapsing from its own rottenness. Crafty Varro did not wait to gloat over Cejonius' downfall or to see what became of his puppet. He took refuge with...