Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently left finance to form with a number of other Harvard men an organization to develop popular support for the establishment, under American leadership, of some kind of international authority upheld by police force to replace the League of Nations. We propose to build the organization on the fifteen million young American men of military age. We feel that America, by virtue of her unprecedented strength and heterogeneous population, occupies a highly strategic position in the international situation, and that our program will appeal to the practical idealism of the nation. We hope to associate our selves with the ablest...
...never more seriously threatened than it was last week by the same Gordon Browning. In Nashville, a special session of the Legislature passed a bill to put Tennessee primaries on a county-unit basis like Georgia's whereby each county would have one unit vote for every 100 popular votes cast in the last gubernatorial election, with an absolute maximum of ⅛ of 1% of the population. Object of Governor Browning's unit plan was to enlarge the voting power of rural districts, put a crimp in the Crump vote by reducing it from approximately...
With 60% of its business outside Manhattan, Musicraft sales this month were twice those of July, four times those of February. A rare Bach secular cantata called The Coffee Cantata proved so popular when released last month that Victor soon came out with a secular cantata of its own, Peasant Cantata. Last week's chief Musicraft offering was two of Bach's Trio Sonatas for Organ, played by Organist Carl Weinrich on the Westminster Choir School organ in Princeton...
...Democratic party in the city has of course been laboring under unusual hardships in the last half decade. It was tragic to have their popular leader Jimmy Walker quit the country under fire on the heels of the Seabury investigation of municipal vice and corruption in 192, and it was even harder to stomach the interference from Washington in the 1933 campaign, when an administration candidate, Joseph McKee split the ticket wide open and led to a Fusion victory. But to add insult to injury only last fall an enlightened electorate voted to adopt an entirely new charter, the final...
...decade of popular interest in the Indians of the Southwest has produced a general social betterment among the tribesmen, a considerable number of Indian gigolos, a few serious pieces of fiction. Of this fiction the work of Oliver La Farge, notably his Pulitzer Prize-winning Laughing Boy, has stood out as the best, marked by accurate observation, sensitive understanding of the complex Indian psychology, a respect for their cultural dignity. Anthropologist turned writer, an official advisor to the Hopi, a director of the National Association on Indian Affairs, Oliver La Farge has made himself an Indian spokesman in Washington...