Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than six primary votes. Hence Echols County, with 300 votes, is one-third as influential as Fulton County (Atlanta), with 30,000. Any three back-country counties can offset the vote of the State's largest city, help give victory to a candidate with a minority popular vote...
What followed put a terrific strain on the Popular Front coalition which supports the Blum Cabinet. Scarcely could French Communists believe their ears when they heard that Premier Blum, not only a Jew but also a Socialist, had greeted with every mark of courteous amity the first German Cabinet minister to go to Paris since the Nazis came to power in Berlin. As for Dr. Schacht, he seemed to have permission from Realmleader Hitler to forget for the duration of his Paris visit everything Germans have been told to remember about Jews and Marxists. After lunching at the Bank...
...Bakunin battalion made up entirely of dockworkers from Barcelona, broke into Huesca at nine in the morning, but was checked for four hours by 26 machine-guns installed on a church roof and belfry, which vomited livid death into the front ranks of the Popular Frontists as they entered the main square. Shortly after noon two Anarchists, Amadeo Salvan and Fernández Ubarri, loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri...
Except for the administrations of Lincoln, the 2,922 days that Thomas Jefferson was President were probably the most turbulent in the history of the U. S. "It was a lusty period," says Claude Gernade Bowers, "by no means so sedate as is the popular impression-a period of marching mobs, of rebellions more brazen than that of Shays, of backstairs gossip and back room intrigues, of whispering campaigns and political assassinations." Last week Historian Bowers, whose current avocation is being U. S. Ambassador to Spain, offered a biography of Jefferson that threw little new light on the great Democrat...
...Mille presented handsome Clark Gable and long-legged Marlene Dietrich, in a radio version of the six-year-old cinema Morocco. Miss Dietrich, whose voice is not her most celebrated asset, fascinated listeners with a mysterious whispered drawl. The Gable personality, currently one of the most popular at U. S. cinema boxoffices, registered more favorably n the air. Since then, on a talent budget whose maximum is said to be $15,000 a week, Lux has favored the listeners of the country with an hour of high-priced acting each week from a cross-section of the cinema...