Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What is more important, however, is the revealing light which such polls spread upon the mother University. When Rudyard Kipling's "If" is chosen favorite poem year after year, when milk is named as the most popular beverage, when Petty is universally regarded as the favorite artist, we cannot but feel there are evil forces afoot in Nassau. Something, as "favorite-dramatist" Shakespeare once said, is rotten in the state of New Jersey. Certainly the football set-up is not to blame. Coach Crisler came into his share of the boodle and Captain Constable was rail-roaded into several offices...
Indeed, Premier Albert Sarraut called for reassurances from Leon Blum, millionaire Socialist leader of the Popular Front. Professing surprise that uncertainty surrounded his program, that cultured old Jew announced: "The entire efforts of the Popular Front aim at reviving all the sources of national activity. And such revival is impossible without large confidence from the country itself. Therefore, we would be going directly against our own aims were we to precipitate disorders and tumult...
After a week-end caucus it was as clear as anything ever is in French politics that Socialist Blum would head the incoming Popular Front Government. In a speech to his followers which sounded not unlike President Roosevelt's inaugural in 1933, he declared: "In a battle like the one in front of us now a chief is needed. He must have full power. . . . Let us be wise, but let us be bold." As to financial crisis, M. Blum declared: "It is not so serious as war, unemployment or misery." And he referred to devaluation as something "to which...
...feature of the Popular Front program that stirred the most alarm was a vague proposal to nationalize the Bank of France. Founded in 1800 by Napoleon, the Bank of France is not only a sacred symbol of French capitalism; it is to an astonishing degree French capitalism itself. It is a private institution owned by more than 40,000 stockholders. Yet it holds all of France's enormous gold hoard except that privately stored in mattresses and old socks. The French Government owns not a centime of monetary metal. The Bank of France has the sole privilege of issuing...
Whether Socialist Blum can break the power of the Bank of France is open to serious question. It is even questionable whether the average Frenchman wants to see it broken. What the discontented Frenchman really wants is to be cut into the game, and the Popular Front may be able to do that by reforming the charter to the extent that small stockholders get a voice in the Bank's management, and the Government some co-operation in its fiscal policies...