Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city record. He first beat the Long organization in the 1946 New Orleans mayoralty election. In 1950 he was re-elected by the biggest majority in the city's history, getting 121,000 votes. In 1954 Morrison won a third four-year term, taking 60% of the popular vote against eight other candidates. But Chep Morrison has political liabilities: he is both a New Orleanian and a Catholic, facts that count against him in rural and heavily Protestant north Louisiana. Last week Chep Morrison was at pains to emphasize that he was a "native of Pointe Coupee parish...
From that time, General de Latour ruled Tunisia with a firm, fair hand, disassociating himself with Mendes when talking to the French, yet managing to stay popular with the Tunisians and make their home rule work. At the news of his appointment to Morocco last week, Tunisian Premier Tahar Ben Amar said of him: "We wish him in Morocco the same success he achieved in Tunisia...
Robles & Co. had plenty of work to do in his first week. A smoke bomb exploded in the foyer of a theater where Perón's fascist Alianza Popular Nacionalista was holding a meeting. The police announced discovery of an arms cache and two cases of railway sabotage. Unidentified gunmen speeding by in a car fired a dozen shots at two federal policemen guarding the residence of U.S. Ambassador Albert Nufer. It was reported to be the thirteenth mysterious attack on policemen in four weeks...
...that Ali had partially solved their problem. He will, according to word from Pakistan, bring to the U.S. only Begum No. 2, Canadian-born Lebanese Aliya Saadi, his "prosperity" bride. But the capital's party-givers were still slightly upset: they had grown fond of popular Begum No. 1, Hamida, when Aliya was a lowly, belowstairs secretary...
...opening bars sounds like trance music in the movies, gives a hint of the nightmare to follow: tricky "improvements" on Strauss waltzes and other Viennese music. French Conductor Legrand painfully paralyzes the originals' lilting three-quarter time till the music sounds every bit as insipid as French popular music itself. A major atrocity that should cause Vienna to break diplomatic relations with Paris...