Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day in Connecticut the frenzy of the Massachusetts visit was reproduced. Connecticut's popular and able Governor Wilbur ("Uncle Toby") Cross, instead of being kept at arm's length like Governor Curley, was applauded in every Roosevelt speech beginning before the State Capitol (where eleven women and a boy fainted) and ending at Stamford (where several people were injured in an automobile crash). In each town through which the President motored, the schools were dismissed and a general holiday proclaimed. At New Haven where Yale dormitories were decked with Landon banners but no boos were uttered...
...legislative branch of the government and at the same time secure the confidence of the general public. In a successful president both of these arts are essential. Of course if, by virtue of them, a president succeeds in having his measures passed by Congress, and in making an effective popular appeal, his detractors call him a dictator and a demagogue; but as a matter of fact he is simply a successful political executive and leader of the type which our system of party responsibility and democratic control requires...
...first plane because he could not find one that suited him for photographic work, starting commercial production in 1926. During Depression engine and aircraft sales shrank to a low of $72,000 (in 1931). Since then Fairchild has entered the transport field, has developed a high-speed amphibian popular with Pan American Airways, is developing for the Navy an in-line air-cooled motor. Sales recovered to $511,000 last year, and a comfortable backlog of orders is now on the books...
...candy maker, Gustave Antonio Duerler of San Antonio, Tex., who, in 1882, found a market for a few barrels of pecan meats he shipped East on a gamble. Today one out of every five nuts eaten in the U. S. is a pecan. Only peanuts and walnuts are more popular.* Peanuts contain the most protein, pecans the most...
...vacant," who confided State secrets to strangers and who was so inattentive that after weeks of discussion he would suddenly ask a question that betrayed complete ignorance of the subject discussed. After 27 months of the Cuban revolt, when Spanish armies had been sent to that island, a popular move for U. S. recognition of the rebels blocked by Fish, the U. S. policy carefully worked out, Grant abruptly asked his Secretary of State: "I hear that Spain is sending troops out to Cuba, is that a fact...