Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took over as chairman and RFC's great days began. He conducted himself and his huge money-lending business so well, with such level-headed liberalism, that it became easily the public's favorite New Deal agency, and he perhaps Washington's favorite administrator. Just how popular he was it remained for the U. S. Senate to demonstrate last week...
...haired Isom Lamb, optimistic supervisor of the Chelan County Townsend Club, started the test in earnest when he deposited $1,000 in the bank to finance it. This week, according to Sponsor Lamb's plans, the test actually began, A 63-year-old idle orchard worker chosen by popular vote at a Townsend dance last week, was given $200 of Sponsor Lamb's fund which he had to spend in Chelan within 30 days. Each dollar was identified as a "Townsend Test Dollar" by a slip of paper pasted to it. Each Chelanite who gets possession...
...Most Popular Red. In Russia the political setup has now come to such a pass that production of the Soviet Encyclopedia of Literature has been halted, Soviet history books printed only recently have been withdrawn from the schools by order of Stalin, and a dispatch last week announced that the Commissariats for Education were expected to put some old Tsarist history books into Russian pupils' hands again. Reason: Soviet educators can agree that the Tsarist history books are wrong, cannot agree that any history of Russia written since the Revolution is even approximately right, and cannot find an eminent...
Today few U. S. citizens are louder in praise of Joseph Stalin than that emotional but influential lecturer and journalist, Dr. Anna Louise Strong. Yet on Sunday, May 24, 1925, she wrote in the New York Times: "Now that Lenin is dead, Leon Trotsky remains the most popular man in the Soviet Republic. . . . Russia's best organizer . . . Trotsky is more popular throughout Russia not only than any other man but than the whole of the Central Committee" of the Communist Party whose General Secretary was then, as now, Joseph Stalin...
Departmental work in upperclass years is almost tutor-proof, and even underclass courses seem to grow less amenable to "cold-doping," which is the greatest and most lucrative sin of the big-money instructors. Legitimate forms of tutoring seem to become more popular, and the tutors, sometimes to their own confessed astonishment, seem to become educators. Undoubtedly there is still too much tutoring of the sort which merely postpones for a few months the time when student and university must part company, but the day has passed when a young man can casually sign up for routine tutoring in course...