Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory, bushy-lipped Socialist Leon Blum, strategist of the Popular Front, should become the next Premier of France, but comparatively few wiseacres thought that he would. Party leaders knew perfectly well last week that their huge vote was less a vote for Socialism than a vote against the bourgeois Radical Socialist Party which has dominated the Chamber since 1895, and which most Frenchmen feel was responsible for the Stavisky Case and the black eye that scandal gave their country. For years the technique of French Socialists has been to dodge the responsibility of government, heap scorn on those who must...
...expected therefore that, having voted against the Radical Socialists, the next Premier would be a Radical Socialist-Edouard Daladier, two-time Premier. As a matter of fact, M. Daladier is far more Socialistic in sympathy than most of his fellow party members, hence will attract the support of the Popular Front...
Under Egypt's joke status as a "free, independent and sovereign Kingdom." there are three powers in that ancient country: Britain, the Egyptian King and the overwhelmingly popular Wafd Party. Of these three, any combination of two is possible. Britain and Fuad combined to suppress the Wafd; Britain and the Wafd combined to clip Fuad's autocratic powers; Fuad and the Wafd combined to defy Britain. Last week the death of King Fuad cut short the deliberations of delegations of Britons and Egyptians engaged in drawing up a new Anglo-Egyptian treaty giving Egypt a few new privileges...
...time of puberty was found by Dr. Boas to be more a matter of environment than of "race." Contrary to popular belief, climate has little to do with it. In New York City the onset of puberty occurs at practically the same age among Negroes and whites of various descent. Poor Negroes, however, mature later than those economically better off. Southern and West Indian blacks mature later than those farther north. Among European whites, rustics reach puberty later than city-dwellers...
...England a group of scientists including Sir Arthur Smith Woodward and Julian Huxley are engaged in knocking the flimsy props from under Nazi ideas of race purity and race superiority. A quarter-century ago Franz Boas was attacking the same sort of ideas. At that time the view was popular that different races had their characteristic mentalities which determined their culture. Boas had piled up enough data to convince him that such was not the case. His Mind of Primitive Man was published in 1911. When he was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science...