Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After two hours with National Chairman Jim Farley, the Vice President spent three and one-half hours with the President, trying to tell him that the November election results were not (as a famed Janizariat chart purported to prove) a collection of local overturns, but first evidence of a popular trend to the Right, toward economy. Ray Tucker, oldtime Washington correspondent who enjoys Mr. Garner's confidence more than most men, reported that in this session the Vice President told the President to "decide whether you're gonna...
...President so far as possible on public spending, to check him if he reverses himself on recovery and business appeasement (see p. 11). Because of this John Garner has become to arch New Dealers a symbol of sabotage. They consider him a prairie politician whose archaic notions, plus popular veneration for long public service, accidentally make him the leader of reaction against six years of enlightened reform...
...eminent political statistician, Emil Hurja, observes that early leaders of popular polls (as now taken) invariably hold their leads and win in the end.-"Cactus Jack" Garner leads current polls for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 and Mr. Hurja does not mind saying that the forces now putting Mr. Garner ahead will keep him there through the 1940 Democratic convention. Political events, says Mr. Hurja, nowadays follow the drift of such polls rather than the drift of cigar smoke in hotel rooms. To answer yes-butters who say, "But if Mr. Roosevelt decides to run again . . .?" Mr. Hurja...
Soon the whole campus and California's press knew that the personable, popular president of the world's biggest university* was seriously considering this offer. The salary tempting him was more than three times what he gets as university president ($13,500 and living expenses...
...president, Richard du Pont, crack airplane and glider pilot. Enthusiastic advocate of air mail for Main Street, he is confident his mail-snagging line will soon have counterparts in every part of the U. S., has cannily offered his pick-up device for sale. If the service proves widely popular the railroads may have something else to worry about...