Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Permit me to quote briefly from a bulletin of instructions which I have been mailing to prospective contributors since 1929: "Popular Science Monthly is interested in facts-actualities- things-and not ideas. Nothing of a grotesque, fanciful, or freakish nature is published...
...Nebraska, this right would be taken from them and given to the people. But long ago the same unwritten Constitution of the U. S. which denies any President the right to more than eight years in office, deprived the electors of their power to vote anything save the popular conviction of their respective states, reduced them to the status of political stooges...
...Springfield, Illinois' Electoral College (president, Circuit Judge John O'Connor of Chicago) heard a discussion of the merits of electoral v. popular votes for President without recommendation. Illinois ballots gave electors the choice of marking X's for Roosevelt, Landon, Lemke, Thomas, Colvin, Aiken. For Roosevelt & Garner, 29 votes...
...immediately dropped into a quiet routine of receiving British home & Dominion statesmen at his home, No. 145 Piccadilly. As Duke of York he aroused only the slightest public interest, but British aristocrats said with particular satisfaction of the Duchess of York, "She is one of us," and a popular knowledge that the late King George V was most fond of their little daughter "Lilybet" (together with her marked facial resemblance to Queen Mary) insures her great popularity with Britain's masses...
Baron Rothschild closely accompanied his Baroness and the Duke when they played a round of golf on the castle's private links, and the Austrian caddy said that his Royal Highness continually sang snatches of popular tunes...