Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House servants heard a burst of jangled melody from the East Room, hurried in and found Gus, who had taught himself to play the piano by a mail-order system, pounding out jazz on the famous gilt piano. Thereafter he moved to the Mayflower Hotel, but he remained popular with the Roosevelts, their official friends, and particularly the children at Warm Springs, for whom he once did a hula dance...
...swing along Latin America (see p. 13), that even this week it will scarcely get down to action. As the President sped homeward, however, Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the entire world some authentic moments of exhilaration with a speech which made it seem that those popular peace men Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann lived again-also that the admirable Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact "Renouncing War as an Instrument of National Policy" had all its original freshness and bloom...
Suddenly in Paris last week the Communist deputies withdrew their support without warning from the "Popular Front" Cabinet headed by Socialist Leon Blum because of his continued refusal to munition the Reds of Spain. M. Blum, after receiving one of the smallest votes of confidence since his Cabinet was formed, raged at the French Reds who had let him down, "I would resign if conditions were not so grave that my resignation would be understood neither at home nor abroad...
...other Dutch chaperon for all the Daily Express appeared to know, but Lord Beaverbrook's paper carried the story under this seven-word head : "DUTCH ROYAL WEDDING IS BEING HUSHED UP "Somebody Saw Prince and Princess Kissing " It isn't done say clubmen." In The Netherlands the popular marriage of the Crown Princess has not been hushed up, like King Edward's intentions toward Mrs. Simpson, but proclaimed to take place Jan. 7. Last week the Dutch were as happy about Juliana as the British were upset over Edward. Dutchmen do not stand about in clubs muttering...
...voluminous on the subject, and can talk profoundly on its thousand-and-one ramifications. The purpose of his organization is to induce people to sign cards, saying, "I am in accord with the aim of the Federation to out-law war by popular vote." To date, they have obtained 600,000 signatures in every country in the world. In countries like our own, they have less difficulty, because of the popular feeling for peace. In countries like Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russia, however, they meet with more determined opposition, accounted for by their collective warlike attitude...