Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faithful and influential friends of the popular Lamson, sales manager of the Stanford University Press, this solution was a ghastly break of circumstantial evidence. They raised a defense fund, printed booklets denouncing the case as justice's greatest miscarriage, laid Mrs. Lamson's death to an accidental fall. After his conviction, Lamson went to the San Quentin Prison condemned row, pounded out his best-selling book, We Who Are About to Die. Trial No. 2, ordered by the State Supreme Court, resulted in a hung jury. Trial No. 3 was adjourned due to an irregularity in the venire...
Against such odds there was doubt whether even popular Governor Horner could win. But excitement was high because more hung on the primary than the fate of Horner and the Kelly machine. Two more big pins in the cat's cradle of Illinois politics are Colonel Knox, publisher of Chicago's Daily News and Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of Chicago's Tribune. Both men and both sheets are Republican. Both are interested in the gubernatorial fights in both parties. Both are at swords' points on all points. The News has attacked vice and misrule under...
...Ministry of Health and the Foreign Office, was President of the Board of Education from 1924 to 1929. He is still, a Governor of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, frequently visits the U. S. to lecture educators on their trade. A Conservative with liberal tendencies, he is popular with Laborites. It was largely to calm the latter that Stanley Baldwin, swept into office with a Conservative majority last September, made Whiskery William de Percy's descendant a Minister without Portfolio, "to think out long term policies for the Government" at ?3,000 a year...
...only is Boake Carter currently the most popular of Radio's news commentators, with a rating of 12.6 by the Crossley Survey* he is also far & away the most daring. His freedom to express any partisan opinion that pops into his curly head is the wonder of a notoriously timid industry. However, while Carter's crusty editorializing delights thousands of listeners, it chagrins thousands more, keeps him in a perpetual controversial stew...
...Outdoor Life was taken over by Popular Science. Editor McGuire was left with nothing to do. Alone and bored during the long winter evenings in his Mt. Morris farmhouse, he decided to relieve the tedium by publishing a magazine of his own, no sportsman's forum like hearty Outdoor Life but a sophisticated journal to which his friends could contribute. At first he toyed with the idea of bidding for moribund Vanity Fair, then decided to think out an entirely new editorial formula, present it in a brand-new publication...