Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision." As the sole Presidential entrant in Pennsylvania's Republican primaries last week, Senator William Edgar Borah received the compliment of a pencil scratch from more than 300,000 voters. Only 20 of the State's 75 convention delegates had pledged themselves in advance to support the popular choice, were last week reported eager to weasel out of their promise...
This was the largest representation Communists have ever won in France. It meant that, with the Socialists of varying degrees of pinkness, the Popular Front had an overwhelming victory of 378 seats, enough and to spare to guarantee the formation of the next Cabinet when the Chamber reconvenes on June...
Italy's success in conquering Ethiopia has put the British in a very difficult position, making it almost impossible for them to get out of the mess gracefully. The sanctions have failed to accomplish the desired effect, and popular opinion in England is up in arms against the Government...
...Houses were to adopt a uniform method of election like the "open primary", it would do away with this possibility for the House Committee to place names on the ballot that were not popular choices. Under an "open primary" set-up, one week before the elections were to take place, the residents of the Houses would vote for the men they wished to elect. The results would be counted, and the three or four persons receiving the greatest number of votes would automatically be put up for the final election. Out of this four, one or two would be finally...
...becoming every day more uniformed and stylized. With Mussolini still timing the applause earned by the crowning success of the Fascist regime, and Hitler able to gather all those who voted against him in the confines of a telephone booth, in France at any rate a radical is still popular...