Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such retaliatory measures are not only consummately unconstitutional and unjust but are above all else cowardly. They strike at those unable to defend themselves either with money or with popular and sympathetic support. If anyone doubts the truth of this let him ask himself whether the House of Representatives of Georgia has ordered Erskine Caldwell examined by a psychiatrist. Certainly the author of the famous "Tobacco Road" handed Georgia no orchids' in that brilliant yet searing expose. Though Caldwell and Peter Moody represent two totally different planes of achievement and position they nevertheless are doing the same thing:--telling...
Those were the facts. The whispers going the Socialist rounds in Vienna were far more colorful. When the Nazis came to power in Germany one of the most successful methods of gaining popular support for their anti-Semitic campaign was the forced bankruptcy of many large Jewish firms in Germany. Phönix-Wien, apart from its handsome board chairman, General Carl Vaugoin, was almost exclusively Jewish...
...Painter Blythe became engaged to pretty, popular Julia Keffer of East Liverpool, settled down over a store in Uniontown, Pa., seat of Fayette County. He was commissioned to carve a huge wooden statue of Lafayette for the new county courthouse, which made citizens of nearby Waynesburg, seat of Greene County, want a similar monument to General Greene. When he asked $300 for the job, Waynesburgers hotly replied that they did'"not propose to give him the whole county for his work," hired a local craftsman. Painter Blythe retorted with a long poem in the Uniontown newspaper criticizing Waynesburg...
...Detroit for a summer of long arguments and resurrected rancor, Judge Patrick Thomas Stone brings a reputation for wit, geniality, and broad interpretation of the law. Now 47, big, baldish, he insists on being called "Pat," has long been a popular toastmaster in his home State. First Federal judge appointed by President Roosevelt, he was strongly supported by both Wisconsin labor organizations and local bar associations...
...Silas Reed. He grew up to be a gangling, delicate boy, good at swimming, headstrong and difficult in class. "Defiance was not a principle with him; it was an instinct." His family sent him east to school, then to Harvard. Reed soon became a well-known but not a popular member of his class. Fiercely ambitious, fiercely sensitive, he was regarded as pushing and unsound...