Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government operation of Muscle Shoals for which he had been vainly struggling for a decade; the year after Nebraska's unicameral. One other major reform which he still hopes to leave behind him, is an amendment putting an end to the Electoral College and providing for the direct popular election of Presidents...
Hesier's "An American Doctor's Odysey" led the non-fiction field, with "The Flowering of New England," "Audubon," the Bible, "Enjoyment of Laughter," and "Inside Europe" also proving popular...
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli the Papal Secretary of State, seems to be the popular guess as successor to Plus. Just what kind of a Pope he will make remains to be seen--it may be too much to hope for a Hildebrand--but it is easily possible that he will outshine the dying pontiff, whose best known accomplishment at his time seems to be the encyclical "Casti Connubil", which weightly discusses short skirts, lip rouge, and the like...
Also in the choral line are the two concerts by the oft-heard and ever popular Vienna Choir Boys, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. This unusual group not only sings sacred pieces, folk songs, and the like, but also gives one-act operettas in costume with all appropriate acting and staging...
...author's final appeal for the mass popular front against war and Fascism there can be few objections save in the ranks of the Fascists and war-mongers themselves...