Word: popular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bilbo ranted, repeated verbatim a lengthy tirade he recently mailed to all Senators, in which the Judge was compared unfavorably to Lord Chancellor Jeffreys of the Bloody Assizes. Those few Senators who stuck it out paid little attention. In cloakrooms they had previously settled the matter. To aid their popular colleague, Mississippi's senior Senator Pat Harrison, who was backing the nomination, to show "The Man" Bilbo that neophyte Senators should not make nuisances of themselves on the floor, they swamped (59-to-4) his motion to recommit the nomination to committee, confirmed Judge Holmes's upping...
Breaking the precedent of former years, when the Ivy Orator was elected by popular vote along with other class officers, the new system will offer a chance for anyone with ability to gain the post...
High comedy will regin at Leverett on Monday, April 13, when the fifteenth- century French farce, "Monsieur Patelin," will be presented in English. This play, probably the most popular of its type, has had a long and distinguished stage history. In 1904 the Comedie Francaise presented a highly successful performance of "Patelin" to an enthusiastic audience, and 1913 saw the show put on by the Harvard "47 Workshops...
...year past, a ruddy-faced, 32-year-old Union Theological Seminary graduate named Richard A. Morford has been acting pastor of First Presbyterian Church, whose members proudly claim that George Washington once worshipped there. Presbyterian Morford went to First Church in 1931 as Minister of Christian Education, made himself popular with the young people. He made no bones of the fact that he is a Socialist. Year ago he helped bring Norman Thomas to Morristown, introduced that amiable onetime Presbyterian minister and Presidential candidate to his listeners. Abruptly last week Socialist Morford announced his resignation, declined to comment. A trustee...
...Webbs do not like the term dictatorship as applied to Russia, consider the Soviet Government less autocratic than many a parliamentary cabinet. As indications that Russia is actually a "multiform democracy" they cite the widespread popular discussion of proposed laws. The marriage law of 1927 was thus argued over for a year before adoption; the 'liquidation of the kulaks" for more than two. To the reader's astonished question: Is Stalin, then, not a dictator? the Webbs return a firm No. "The Government of the U.S.S.R. during the past decade has been clearly no better than that...