Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, Philip Fox La Follette, youngest of the sons, came back strong. Last fall Phil La Follette, running for his fourth term as Governor, was beginning to think he might extend Wisconsin's new deal over the whole nation, when he ran smack into a popular revulsion against new-dealing. Like more than a third of the States, Wisconsin turned around and elected a Republican, who clearly (against Wisconsin's background) suggested what may happen in the nation if and when the Roosevelt New Deal is turned out by a Republican leader. Last week, under Julius Peter Heil...
...Heil's more politically experienced colleagues were worried by such high-handed talk, for its university is one of Wisconsin's great popular prides. They remonstrated with him, and at another budget hearing, on a teacher's retirement fund, Julius Heil showed he was learning his lesson. At first he flared up, demanded to know why there should be such a thing as a teachers' retirement fund. "What do they do for me when I get old?" he snorted. "They don't hold...
...First Hundred Thousand," the valiant little British Expeditionary Force of 1914, is a name brimful of heroic associations for Britons. How effective the second Hundred Thousand will be in capturing popular imagination and support in opposing Mr. Chamberlain's policies remains to be seen...
Actor Abdul-Wahab's trilly tenor voice has long been heard on Italian Arabic propaganda broadcasts. The programs were recorded. But so popular was Abdul-Wahab's crooning even in that form that Arabs were more than willing to listen to a few words of anti-British oratory while waiting for the next torch song-often fairly anatomical...
...popular and influential teacher here for thirty-nine years, Dean Chase was a happy appointment to the post of "deputy president" with functions closely paralleling a governmental vice-president. In his new niche in the pyramiding of authority, the Dean should prove a valuable asset in general superintendence...