Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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North Carolina's Governor Luther Hodges, a courtly textileman who came out of retirement to enter public life four years ago, likes to keep his books straight. Assured of re-election after romping through the May 26 primary with a record 401,082 votes, popular Democrat Hodges last week proceeded to clear up his accounts with a businesslike gesture that sent chills through other politicians across the country...
Banker in Buchenwald. Six months ago, when Premier Guy Mollet named Pineau, rather than mercurial Pierre Mendes-France, as Foreign Minister, most of France's Allies were delighted. Here was a Socialist who had strongly supported EDC, staunchly resisted popular-front talk, and was given to saying things like "The American people must know that we love them." The son of an army officer and stepson of playwright Jean (The Madwoman of Chaillot] Giraudoux, Pineau had jumped from a promising banking career into the Socialist labor movement after the Bank of France fired him for trying to unionize...
...bidding for political support, Rojas can no longer claim the popular role of hero-peacemaker. The rural war has flared up again, with discontented backlanders increasingly joining guerrilla bands. In Tolima department last month, troops reportedly rounded up several hundred villagers in an area where several soldiers had been shot from ambush, and as a ruthless gesture of reprisal killed 80 or more of the prisoners. Rojas himself disclosed recently that the official war-death count for January...
...Near the end of its fifth year on TV, I Love Lucy, still one of the three most popular shows in the nation, has earned for its owners (Desilu Productions) and its network (CBS) $20 million...
...most popular and successful movies in the U.S. last month, according to the tradesheet Variety...