Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basic requirement of the numbers game is a figure published daily in the newspapers. Until 1930 the most popular figures were the New York Clearing House daily clearings and balances. In that year, after numerous attempts had been made to bribe staid Clearing House employes for advance information, Manhattan dailies ceased to print the figures. It was a futile gesture, for the bigtime numbers bankers simply shifted to other figures. Butter, egg and stock sales are used in combination for the game in Winston-Salem, N. C. Every important newspaper takes elaborate precautions to see that any figures likely...
...England to drum up sympathy for his black brothers. Back in the U. S. after the War, Abolitionist Douglass became a potent leader of freed U. S. Negroes. In 1871, President Grant appointed Frederick Douglass Assistant Secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission. President Grant's appointment proved so popular with U. S. Negroes that President Garfield named Douglass Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia in 1881, allowed him to staff his office with Negroes. Since then U. S. Presidents have failed to follow President Garfield's precedent only twice. Present incumbent is colored William J. Thompkins...
...played such a tedious waiting game that the Young Marshal, when he publicly demanded as part of the "ransom" fortnight ago that the Nanking Government speed up and declare war on Japan, was voicing the aspiration of millions of Chinese The announced policy of the kidnapper is so exceedingly popular-even if it is an ex-dope's not too bright idea-that almost every Chinese inevitably must be more or less drawn to it, even Dictator Chian" who knows that he cannot procrastinate forever...
...author before reprinting a book and a playwright has legal right to a reasonably careful production, the owner of a picture can reproduce it in any form he chooses unless the reproduction rights have been specifically reserved. As Spokesman Sloan pointed out last week, a 10? reprint of a popular novel will not affect the author's reputation; a poor reproduction of a painting, for those who are not familiar with the artist's original work, may be disastrous...
...unearthing The Colonial Background of the American Revolution, Professor Andrews travels, is interested in contemporary British as well as early U. S. history, considers the abdication of Edward VIII a wise decision without precedent in the interests of the British Empire. No longer lecturing, working only with graduate students, popular, retiring Professor Andrews at 73 looks forward to publishing the third volume of The Colonial Period in American History next March, the fourth in 1938. Beyond that he says he can promise nothing...