Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burton left McCall's in 1927 after five brilliantly successful years, joined Cosmopolitan in 1931. McCall Co.'s other big magazine and Cosmopolitan's rival, Redbook, has been edited since 1927 by quick-thinking Edwin Balmer, who finds time on the side to write many a popular novel, many of them in collaboration with a prolific Redbook contributor, Princeton's Philip Wylie...
Voice of the People. Preliminary results of a popular poll on the subject, published last week by the American Institute of Public Opinion, indicated on incomplete returns that although 61% voted for Franklin Roosevelt last autumn, 53% to 60% in various regions were opposed to his Court plan. Only one State, New York, gave it a majority...
...Election Committee has decided that this year they will not announce the tabulation of votes until after the election, giving as their reason that in recent years the voters have showed a tendency to jump on the band wagon and to cast their votes for the most popular candidate in the primaries...
...selecting Professor Tinker Harvard has chosen an alien genius of undoubted popularity. Harvard has never evinced any false modesty over the worth of her own sons. Through the Norton Professorship, however, she is able to ward off the spring fever of complacency with a salutary drink now and then from the waters of outlying springs. This tonic is of considerable concern to Bostonians, as well as students, and is generally offered to the public. Especially since the professorship is thus turned to a popular purpose must the choice be a popular...
...time Mr. Atlas was a popular sculptor's model, his clients including James Earle Fraser and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. But his real commercial success dates from 1922 when he started to offer mail-order courses in physiculture. Today he has an office in London as well as Manhattan, claims he has started a total of 500,000 puny people on the road to potent health. Mr. Atlas' formula is "Dynamic Tension" which means pitting one set of muscles against another for exercise instead of using weights, bars, bells, springs...