Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...various systems in use at present range from what might almost be called the sublime in practicability and popular favor to the ridiculous. Leverett House relies on the good faith of its members to sign a pledge book in the library; caring not a whit, seemingly, how many members choose to donate anything. Lowell House capitalizes on its dances, relying on these profits for its funds, though the criticism is prevalent that such a method tends to cast too commercial a pallor over something that should be free from the money taint. Adams swings to the other extreme in demanding...
...Secretary." But Franklin Roosevelt insisted on Miss Perkins, whom the A. F. of L. opposed. Jim Farley asked Miss Perkins to take Mr. McGrady as Assistant Secretary, but she declined. So he was made Deputy NRAdministrator in charge of Labor. His frank, outspoken manner, which makes him popular with newshawks, endeared him to General Hugh Johnson who is one of his stanchest admirers...
...Spanish radicals for Dictator Stalin and his Foreign Minister to take off the mask of their "quarrel." They appeared together atop Lenin's Tomb in the Red Square, and all Russia knows that the few men permitted to stand there with J. Stalin during a popular review are always his prime favorites of the moment. Next, the highest Soviet decoration, the Order of Lenin, was last week pinned on the barrel-chest of Comrade Litvinoff by Stalin's frontman, twinkly-eyed old Russian President Mikhail Kalinin...
This week Charter Subscribers and newsstand buyers got their first look at LIFE, new picture weekly published by Time Inc. Preliminary promotion had promised that LIFE would offer "the biggest and best package of pictures which it is possible to produce at a popular price." For 10?, first readers could judge how the new magazine had fulfilled these specifications as they thumbed the 96 big pages (14 in. by 10⅝ in.) on which LIFE commenced its pictorial career...
...could scarcely be less effective for their purpose than were they for theirs. Since they could not suppress it, ministers were obliged to enter the fight. Political scribbling, though loudly despised as a prostituted trade, became almost respectable when great men set up their own journals to solicit the popular voice. Readers in the coffee-houses in 1723 may well have marveled to find Bishop Hoadly in "The London Journal" and the Duko of Wharton in "The True Briten" abusing each other. In the end Walpole's defeat was the product of years of Bolingbroke's and Pulteney's dinning...