Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without his father's counsel and his Queen's popular touch, Leopold began to get himself into stupid situations. He insisted on writing his own speeches about colonial policy and economic affairs. Politicians groused that in England the constitutional monarch left speeches to his ministers. Leopold antagonized Parliament by refusing to grant its members the customary honors and titles...
...opinions of Britons in pubs and chemists' shops. He lost ten of his 155 pounds, never paused for sightseeing, and brought back enough material to fill the whole July issue of his magazine. Net observation: the Health Act, which went into effect just a year ago, is popular with most Britons but is bad for them. Britain, McPherrin concluded, has become "Welfare Island...
...became a Communist, spent years in jail for his revolutionary activities. Forced to flee Bulgaria in 1923, he first went to Vienna, later to Berlin. After the Reichstag trial, he became a Soviet citizen. As chief of the Comintern (1935-43), he propounded the Popular Front policy with extreme candor. "Comrades," he told the Comintern's 7th World Congress, "you recall the old legend of the Conquest of Troy . . . We revolutionaries should use the same strategy...
...they won a majority, either in their own right or with the help of dissident pro-Leopold Liberals, the Catholics promised to call for a popular "advisory" referendum on the royal question. No one seemed to doubt that Leopold would get a majority in such a plebiscite...
...Newfoundland's west coast, silvery Atlantic salmon were running in a score of rivers. The big ones picked the lordly Humber. Last week, U.S. sportsmen were heading in to try the Humber's limpid pools. On the more popular of Newfoundland's 108 major salmon rivers, cabins were booked solid. (Cost: $25 a day for board, room, canoe and guide...