Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, with Election Day only a few days away, popular polls were still giving hope to New Dealers and anti-New Dealers. Chief predictions...
...disaster which, by the wily stratagems of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the Fatherland has barely avoided so many times, it will be just as well for the blame to burst not upon Herr Hitler but upon Herr Göring, who has been a morphine addict, drinks Gargantuanly and is popular in a bluff, hearty fashion-the sort of man to whom Germans forgive mistakes. Minister-President Göring received last week the following send-off from Der Volkischer Beobachter, the personally-owned newsorgan of Chancellor Adolf Hitler to which all Nazi Party members are obliged to subscribe: "By summoning...
...week it was announced that another Stravinsky opus will have its world premiere in the U. S. next spring. Edward Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein, wealthy young backers of the American Ballet, have commissioned him to compose a new dance suite for their troupe, plan to present it during the popular-priced season at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...wide. Labor disputes are tolerable only so long as they keep on the private battle ground between employer and employee. For the minute the public welfare is put in jeopardy, as occurred in an San Francisco two summers ago, the strike inevitably topples over with the weight of popular disfavor, and both management and labor lose the gains that amicable arbitration would provide...
...most popular attempts to define the undefinable is the age-old effort to embalm the amateur spirit in codes of black and white, but anyone who saw Saturday's game, although the words may still not come, knows now and will never forget what that spirit is. Saturday's game saw the triumph of the amateur spirit over the milk diet, and sports writers will be busy all week comparing it to the battle of the Marne, to Thermopylae, to whatever overworked allusion they can conjure up to the triumph of bare courage in the face of overwhelming odds...