Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This situation, however, was no embarrassment to Dictator Benavides. for of the 21 "democracies" represented at the Conference, only nine-U. S., Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Uruguay- could be defined as States under popular rule. Said Strong Man Benavides, with more subtlety than he perhaps intended: "We cannot offer you, on as grand a scale as some of the other American nations, the harmonious spectacle of a great city that could shelter you as could other capitals. But we do claim your attention to the evolutionary processes of our nationality...
Premier Edouard Daladier was put in power last April by the votes of the Popular Front (his own Radical Socialists, Socialists, Communists). The Premier's Popular Front support cracked after Munich. After he broke last fortnight's general strike, it washed out. Nevertheless, Edouard Daladier remained Premier of France. With Socialists and Communists voting solidly against him, with 28 members of his own party and a few others abstaining, but with almost the whole Right coming to his aid in the Chamber of Deputies, Premier Daladier won a respectable vote of confidence: 315 for, 241 against...
...Skiing," said Niles, "is so popular because it offers such a varied amount of amusement and exercise. For the person who likes to take long hikes, there is cross country skiing. For the person who likes short and speedy excitement with a group of other skiers, there are the open slopes...
This is going to be a real Photographic Christmas. Santa's bag will contain Cameras, Movie Projectors, Enlargers, Exposure Meters and hundreds of other items that now go to make that delightful and popular hobby, Photography, more enjoyable...
...seven generations the U. S. people have been moving to the city* but as their bodies moved cityward, their day dreams moved in the opposite direction. Year by year nostalgic books about the agrarian past have grown in popularity-books by and about grandmothers and grandfathers, memoirs of farm childhoods. One of the most popular was Delia Thompson Lutes's The Country Kitchen, recalling the Michigan childhood of a sturdy, quick-eyed girl who grew up to edit women's magazines, write etiquette books, &detest Faulkner and the end of Anthony Adverse.& The American Booksellers Association voted...