Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presumably the Student Union would like to have as broad and popular a student base as possible --such at least, was the original intent of the founders. To spread that base the organization must preserve a measure of dispassionate presentation of highly controversial subjects. A successful example of this type of discussion was the recent analysis of the seaman's strike by a labor organizer and a shipowner under Union auspices. It was, in a word, a public forum for free discussion...
...learning how to oppose the President and to beat him. It saw that a campaign of frothy cloquence and red-herrings could persuade only two states, and has turned to the constructive strategy. Instead of parking in the middle of the President's road, to be mangled by the popular fervor he arouses when given a solid, reactionary opposition, the legislators are attacking his flank. The Sommers Bill granting full retirement pay to Supreme Court justices is an attempt to shunt the worthy aims of the administration into acceptable paths...
...toward marriage and its study. We should also like to point out that there is more than a slight difference between Hygiene lectures for Freshmen given by a college physician, and lectures for the entire college given by eminent specialists and psychologists on a subject which is still very popular among a great many people as marriage statistics will prove...
...that military competition between nations known as an "armament race". However, with world conditions as they are today, exactly the opposite view should be taken of the phenomenon. For the cause of democracy in general nothing could be of greater advantage than an arms race. The major countries upholding popular government are Great Britain, France, the United States, and, if one is charitable, Russia. At any rate, the first three named are in the vanguard, and, by a coincidence lucky for democracy, are the three countries able to stand comfortably the strain of an arms race. During the next year...
...parents lost their money in 1902, Lazare got a job tutoring Latin and mathematics. He won a scholarship to the Moscow Philharmonic Conservatory in 1905. Next year he lost it because of his revolutionary sympathies. He went to St. Petersburg and studied mathematics and music there, became a popular conductor of the University Chorus...