Word: popularizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Popular Front Government, organized as such, in the history of the Americas was inaugurated fortnight ago in a simple, one-minute ceremony when Chile's President-elect Pedro Aguirre Cerda put on a tricolored sash, symbol of his office. No heart-&-soul revolutionary like Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, President Aguirre is a top-flight lawyer, a member of the Radical Party and a millionaire landowner...
...underpaid, overworked rotos. To do this he lined up his Radicals with the Socialists, Radical Socialists and Communists, took the field against the landlordly Rightists. Infuriated with Rightist President Arturo Alessandri for suppressing their Putsch last September, 15,000 Nacistas (Nazis) on the eve of the election joined the Popular Front's political hodgepodge, helped Lawyer Aguirre win by a slim 3,000 majority...
...chemical genius but an efficient business executive, Willard Dow graduated from University of Michigan in 1919, went to work for his father as a department head, succeeded him as president eight years ago. A chemical putterer since he was ten, good-looking, even-tempered Willard Dow is extremely popular with his employes, most of whom call him by his first name...
...brilliant, hard-working student who finished his undergraduate course in three years, took an M. A. in his fourth. His interests were always violently eclectic, never popular. He fancied French poets but abhorred the self-conscious readings at Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland's rooms, and shied away from the spectacular new drama courses of George Pierce Baker. Harvard scholars then had a Teutonic reverence for degrees, and after a graduate year in Paris Eliot returned to Harvard and worked for a Ph.D. in philosophy, studying Sanskrit and Pali on the side. His Ph.D. thesis on F. H. Bradley...
...more transparent poetaster is Joseph Auslander. His poetical surfaces hide nothing. His complete visibility has attracted popular attention, and has brought him official recognition, in the shape of an appointment as consultant in English poetry for The Library of Congress. His latest book of rousing, rhythmical lyrics, Riders at the Gate (Macmillan, $1.75), his eighth and his best, is a simon-pure example of poetical swaggering...