Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman, Tobin meant votes. Tobin was Irish, a Catholic, popular in New England, strongly supported by labor. He is an able campaigner. Truman badly needed Cabinet members who were willing & able to get out and stump for him this fall. With the Labor Department shorn of most of its functions by Congress, Secretary Tobin will have little else...
...seemed in Warsaw, had many problems-peace, better working conditions, more and better jobs, more education, abolition of child labor. But in Warsaw all the answers were clear, and dictated. A young Polish delegate put in a resolution which flatly declared that in the Soviet Union and in the popular (i.e., Soviet satellite) democracies "all the problems of youth have been solved." The Federation's suave French Communist President Guy de Boisson suggested the resolution be modified to say they were "on the road to solution." Snaoped Soviet Delegate Alexei Klimov: "That may be true in popular democracies...
...shadow of imminent disaster. In the prevailing pessimism, people bicker and blame, but find no way out. They run to the government for personal favors, but never with wholehearted support. This is our danger. If we can't recover morale, if we can't regain popular confidence, then the government is lost indeed...
Three weeks ago, when the University of Pennsylvania picked Harold Stassen as its new president, another announcement was lost in the shuffle. Simultaneously, Pennsylvania reported the resignation of its popular law school dean, Earl G. Harrison, who had been in line for the university's top job, and some of his friends guessed that Dean Harrison quit because Stassen got the job he wanted...
...never seen anything like it, I said to Alice, we can't sell any more books because we have no more to sell . . . to think how hard it used to be . . . it's nice to be glorious and popular in your old age, and to buy bones for Basket [her dog] and be admired by the young, well bless you kiddies bless...