Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...postpone the decisive blow. Trotsky, the new recruit, stepped into the breach and made the Revolution with Lenin. . . . Trotsky built an army out of worse than nothing; out of demoralized deserters who had determined never to fight again. . . . Trotsky is still today [1925] after endless attacks, the most popular and significant figure in the land...
President Cardenas, probably the most popular and conscientious chief executive Mexico has ever had, today makes zealous efforts to attune his Government's policy to the great mass of Mexicans, the peasants. Less than 25% of Mexican farm lands are owned by non-Mexicans and thus far President Cardenas has been careful not to antagonize prematurely the remaining "foreign landlords," or their governments...
...Sandringham to the glitter of London night clubs. He had reopened the Royal racing stables along the lines on which George V ran them. He was riding in sombre Daimlers and Lanchesters and not in slick American cars. He had even changed his policy about yacht racing to meet popular demands. When George V died his will instructed that his yacht Britannia should be sunk unless one of his sons wanted to race it. All four sons, including the present King, turned this offer down and the Britannia was sunk (TIME, July 20). George VI, however, lately revealed...
United's venture into extra fares was regarded as courageous by other U. S. airlines in the face of the popular acclaim which greeted Transcontinental & Western Air last autumn when it cut its fares to railroad levels. Though rivals scoffed, TWA last week complacently claimed that its low fares were proving ideal. TWA passenger traffic in November, first month the low fares were in effect, was 122% greater than in November...
...Skee-ball alleys a day at its West Side Chicago plant, is second only to Mills Novelty Co. in annual business. Into the development of "1937 World Series," Rockola put $250,000, paid $5,000 more last week for the personal appearance and blessing of Pitcher Dizzy Dean. Popular with "World Series" players, gamboling Dizzy Dean drew catcalls at the Association's annual banquet when he devoted two out of three minutes of his speech to plugging Rock...