Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...periods while Mr. Roosevelt was out of the State. Since 1933 he has been President Roosevelt's alter ego in New York, ramming through the State Legislature a mass of crime legislation, over 100 labor bills, a State NRA, higher taxes. Quiet and capable, Governor Lehman is tremendously popular with his 2,000,000 fellow-Jews in the State-a fact which partly explained President Roosevelt's desire to have him head the State Democratic ticket this autumn and thereby help win New York's much-needed 47 electoral votes for the New Deal. Democrats hastily analyzed...
...Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Last week in Ottawa, this onetime premier rose before the Budget Committee in the House of Commons to denounce the duty-free entrance of U. S. publications and syndicate features into Canada, to flay some of the Dominion's most vulgar and popular U. S. comic-strip importations...
...last week hundreds of earnest music-lovers went to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, prepared to listen in all respect to a long-neglected masterpiece. Gluck's Orjeo et Eurydice, missing from the Metropolitan repertoire since 1914, had been promised as one of the highlights of the Popular Spring Season (TIME, May 25). The production was to be in a way experimental, with the singers placed in the orchestra pit while dancers from the American Ballet mimed their roles on the stage. Even among purists such a prospect aroused little concern. A similar device had worked successfully with...
...changed him. His trip might have been a commercial failure but it gave him a sound commercial training. When he got back to London he laid away his knee-breeches, cut his hair, became the popular playwright of his generation...
...Carnegie Metals, which has nothing to do with steel. The company owns gold and silver mines in Mexico. Another Pittsburgh favorite is San Toy Mining, which also owns Mexican mines. One hundred shares of San Toy cost $2. President of the Pittsburgh Exchange is Ralph Struthers Richards, a spruce, popular socialite who heads one of the biggest brokerage houses in Pittsburgh, Kay, Richards...