Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Part of the reason for that defeat was that Michigan's New Dealers were not allowed to vote in both Democratic and Republican primaries. No less than 270,000 of them voted on Democratic ballots to nominate Detroit's onetime Mayor, popular Frank Murphy, High Commissioner to the Philippines to run against Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald who was renominated by the Republicans...
...France can cite her own example. For three months the Government has been carrying out important social reforms. It has done so with the widest popular movement of expectation and hope. But it has done so without a single clash between citizens, without order having been disturbed in the street a single time, without a single institution having been overthrown, without a single citizen having been despoiled...
...morning meetings of ministers and women; 2) luncheons for lay leaders, women, all office holders of all local churches; 3) noontime evangelist meetings in a downtown church or theatre; 4) afternoon seminars for ministers and laymen, conferences for young people; 5) evening mass meetings and sings; 6) huge Sunday popular mass meetings...
...such to the U. S. Public. Early in the New Deal, on the theory that the best defense was to attack, Business fell into the habit of concentrating its fire on Franklin D. Roosevelt. Belatedly it realized that to abuse the man who at last count was the most popular figure in the land was not precisely the smartest way to regain public confidence. So Business became ''constructive." meaning that it tried to divert attention from its sins to its virtues...
...about three and a half centuries print-makers had been producing popular-priced prints in unlimited editions. About the middle of the last century a new trend began to emerge, the tendency to make prints more precious and expensive. The artist printed fewer and fewer proofs, limiting the total to from 25 to 100 and then destroyed the plate. And he charged correspondingly more for each proof because they were so few. Furthermore about 65 years ago it became customary for the artist to sign each print in pencil, no doubt to show that he approved of its quality...