Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South Dakota's No. 1 Democrat. Wisconsin-born, he studied law at the University of South Dakota, landed in Wolsey to begin practice with $40 in his pocket. He spent $5 for a shingle, collected a $5 fee from a cowman client a few moments later. So popular was Bill Howes as a State Senator some 20 years ago that when a daughter was born to him the Legislature passed a special act naming her Mary Senate. Convivial among friends, the temporary head of the Post Office Department likes poker, horse races, prize fights, football and dancing with attractive...
...votes in a referendum on legalizing beer. But the Legislature then failed to follow through with a law fixing alcoholic content. Result: potent beer continued to foam unchecked in Kansas. Democrats charge that Governor Landon got the Legislature to dodge the issue and thwart the popular will because, as a prospective Presidential nominee, he was afraid his signature on a bone dry law would cost him support among Eastern Wets. Last week a Democratic proposal for such a law got only nine Senate votes. Even Joe McDonald was against it. "In Kansas," cried he, "we seem to have a unique...
...hurled water syphons, tables & chairs at police who hurled them back. Significantly, when the Gardes Mobiles marched in to restore order, these grim troopers were cheered with cries of "France for the French!" while the police were booed as tainted with the Socialist, Communist and Jewish aura of the Popular Front...
...assisting: Ray Milland, once of the late George V's palace guards, as Jimmy Dawson, a reporter so infatuated that he was in the habit of leaving bouquets on the supposed grave of Miss Lang inscribed "in memory of glamour." Plot development consists mostly of the pastime, so popular at Paramount this year, of passing stolen jewelry around (Big Brown Eyes, Desire, Florida Special). It is mounted with atmospheric travel shots, big blue & white sundecks, the usual competent Michael performance. Sample line, by Sir Guy Standing: "I have reached the age of wisdom, when a pretty woman...
Nucleus of the Kreuger enterprises, the originally honest construction business of Kreuger & Toll had become by 1932 nothing but a holding company for International Match and Swedish Match and a catch-all for Kreuger's credit deals. The report of the Swedish investigating committee seemed to confirm popular belief that Kreuger & Toll was hollow right down to the ground, that the Kreuger & Toll debentures sold by Ivar Kreuger in Europe and the U. S. in 1929 were about as worthless as any Kreuger securities except those that Kreuger had forged by hand...