Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barking his opinionated views-on-the-news into a microphone, Philadelphia's Harold ("Boake") Carter functions simultaneously as an advertisement for Philco Radio and as a contentious, outspoken editorial voice. Last spring Commentator Carter joined the popular hue & cry against New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman on the Hauptmann case, flayed that official in his broadcasts with a startling lack of restraint. Last week Commentator Carter had his first serious editorial kickback when Governor Hoffman filed in New Jersey Supreme Court a $100,000 libel suit against Carter, Philco Radio & Television Corp.; Philadelphia's Station WCAU...
...assembled for the University's annual Conference on Curriculum & Guidance. Well aware that his reputation as an eminent radical educator had preceded him to Hearstland, he began his address thus: "It's becoming almost respectable to be called a Red. Let anyone step out in defense of popular right, and he will be labeled a Communist...
...century of writing. Next October he will be 70. "E. Phillips Oppenheim" is more than a man's name: it has become a familiar phrase for bejewelled melodrama. In the 50 years Author Oppenheim has been doing business his trademarked product has become as well known and as popular as a successful breakfast food, and for the same reasons : it is a standard brand and it pleases the public palate. To analyze an Oppenheim book would be as uninformative a process as to announce that a breakfast food was compounded simply of bran, malt, sugar and salt. The important...
...Lady Judith Martellon living in a tenement house and patronizing the bar of the Green Man? Why was Ordino's exclusive club so popular? What was Ordino's connection with Lady Judith and Professor Sir Gregory Fawsitt? Who was the man in the long, soiled mackintosh, the man with the deep-set evil eyes and the complexion of a vampire? To some of these questions the reader can soon supply the answer. Ordino's club was a blind for selling drugs. Ordino was in cahoots with Lady Judith and Sir Gregory, whose yacht-cruises were not innocent...
...subway thinks of himself as taking a much livelier interest in science than his grandfather-in-the-buggy ever did. And though pure scientists may snort at this "interest," it is a fact that modern readers like to read about science. Books-about-science by such popularizers as Eddington, Jeans, Russell, Sullivan and Wells are widely read, sometimes even become bestsellers. That books-about-scientists might also have a popular appeal was proved by Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters. Last week Author-Naturalist Donald Culross Peattie took a leaf from de Kruif's notebook, published a book...