Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having drafted popular, vote-getting Frank Murphy to bolster the ticket in Michigan, exactly as he drafted New York's popular, vote-getting Governor Herbert H. Lehman last month, President Roosevelt promptly rewarded him with the same kind of job insurance he gave Postmaster General Farley last week. Graciously declining to accept the High Commissioner's resignation, the President loaded the dice in Frank Murphy's $13,000 gamble by granting him a two-month leave of absence without pay, ending two days after elections...
...four consecutive polls since last September by the American Institute of Public Opinion to choose between Franklin Roosevelt and any Republican Presidential candidate, scientific samplings of the nation's voters boosted the President's score each time until by early last month he had a 55-8% popular vote, was ahead in enough states to give him 407 electoral votes. Last week the Institute revealed the result of its first poll since Republicans named their nominee. Popular vote: Roosevelt, 51.8%; Landon, 48.2%; electoral votes: Roosevelt, 259; Landon...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh have. In those circumstances, socialite Britons assumed and freely said last week in Mayfair that, as in the case of Ethiopia, British public opinion is now in course of a great change, and soon the comings and goings of Mrs. Simpson will be a popular topic in the popular press...
Whether French workers are to be permitted to continue "stayin" strikes, which in law are indistinguishable from seizure of their employers' premises, was last week the prime political issue before the Popular Front Government of Socialist Premier Leon Blum. The answer was "No," reluctantly admitted Minister of the Interior Roger Salengro after the French Senate had threatened a vote of no-confidence if it were "Yes." The answer was "Yes," indignantly replied Communist Leader Maurice Thorez, whose 72 votes are indispensable to Premier Blum's coalition majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Said Irish-faced M. Thorez...
...occupying factories illegally, he said, the Government would first send the local mayor to call them out, then a labor union delegate, then the local member of Parliament, and finally, police without bayonets to shoo strikers out "with care." Placated Communist Thorez thereupon threw his weight back to the Popular Front, saying. "The workers must know how to end strikes...