Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...determined by Motion Picture Herald's poll of U. S. exhibitors. As rival to President Roosevelt and King Edward VIII for most photographed celebrity, she appears in an average of 20 still portraits daily for magazines, newspapers and advertisements. In addition to being, accurately speaking, the most popular cinemactress, Shirley Temple is the ablest song-plugger in Hollywood. Sheet music sales on her songs, like Polly Wolly Doodle and On the Good Ship Lollipop, are over 400,000 copies each. These are larger than the sales of songs introduced in the same period by Bing Crosby, Jeanette MacDonald...
...plump go-getting Leonora Wood Armsby, founder of the Hillsborough summer concerts, who this winter has been the San Francisco orchestra's managing director. Last year when there was no regular season because of the lack of public support, the city voted $30,000 to give ten popular-priced concerts (TIME, May 13). But Mrs. Armsby and President Thompson (brother of Author Kathleen Morris), were determined to have an oldtime formal season besides, engaged Monteux and launched the one just ending. To cover expenses they needed a guarantee of $82,000, had only half of it when the first...
...with a jaundiced eye, he was talking about the "last phase of the Depression" as early as the autumn of 1930. He can analyze other people's analyses with devastating results. Yet his own conclusions are often challenged, and his vision is sometimes curiously narrow. But given a popular economic delusion, he can demolish it in one swift paragraph. His prestige has grown uninterruptedly throughout Depression, while the stature of other economic prophets was shrinking rapidly. Today he is one of the most-quoted bank economists in the land...
...outcome of this experiment will depend entirely on popular support and it will be in the students' hands whether History and Science develops as a field and eventually assumes the stature of History and Literature or Whether it crumbles away into mere nothingness. At first limited to six concentrators, the future status of the new addition will be based on the number and type of men who present themselves as candidates before next September. If sufficient interest and enthusiasm is evinced, the quota and facilities will be enlarged to provide for those men who feel interested in a cultural...
John W. Green '28, more popularly known as Johnny Green, talented pianist, composer, arranger, and orchestra leader, will make an informal appearance at Briggs & Briggs tomorrow, from 12.30 to 2 o'clock. He will display his ivory-tickling ability by playing some of his own compositions, as well as other currently popular songs. During his Senior year at Harvard Johnny coached one of the best Gold Coast orchestras in the history of that organization...