Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...works. We can't put spots between movements; it's not fair to the listener." The result has been an increase in 15-minute programs, with short pieces and a spot between each one. This policy is doubly attractive to prospective advertisers, who would rather sponsor semi-popular music than more serious works...
...companies maneuver with new prices and improving quality, most consumrs stand by and watch, refusing to buy what may soon be obsolete. Until an industry agreement on how these new systems should be used (such as using the Columbia system for classical records and the Victor system for popular) is reached, the present confusion will continue for both manufacturer and consumer...
...those Popular Front days, Organizer Dennis operated from a bare, dirty, guarded office over the Oneida Restaurant at 113 East Wells Street, Milwaukee. His methods and objectives were multifarious...
Dennis' chief Earl Browder was sent to jail for the popular Communist felony of passport fraud. Robert Minor, an elderly and bemused ex-St. Louis Post-Dispatch cartoonist, was given the temporary job of boss. But Browder, let out of jail by Franklin Roosevelt, got his old job back and picked up the next line from Moscow. Hitler had marched on Russia. The new and urgent line was to make peace with the capitalist U.S., piously preach collaboration of all "democratic" forces against their common fascist enemy. Roosevelt, who had been denounced as a "dirty warmonger," was a hero...
Bernard Iddings Bell is a personable man, but he has never tried to be a popular man. For 40 years, in books and articles, from pulpit and lecture platform, he has been irritating churchmen, ruffling educators, cracking complacencies and smugness. A canon of the Episcopal Church, and onetime warden of New York's Episcopal St. Stephen's College (now Bard College), he calls himself a radical independent. As such, he has become one of the most caustic critics of the manners & morals of his day. There is scarcely a sector of U.S. civilization for which Bell...