Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Third on the program was the smart, husky, popular encyclopedia who calls himself "the best damned no-trump player in the United States," Economist Leon Henderson, who used to work for the Russell Sage Foundation until he was taken to Washington for NRA, after the death of which he buzzed around aimlessly until the Janizariat learned his worth and put him in as TNEC's executive secretary. Through his swift and durable head must pass all the data presented to the Committee, timed and spaced for maximum clarity and effect. He summed up for his economist colleagues, raising...
...dispute clear. Labor Leader Leon Jouhaux had declared that the decree laws were "unacceptable as written." Particularly unacceptable to Leader Jouhaux was the decree extending the work week from 40 to 45 hours in war industries. French labor had won the 40-hour week from Leon Blum's Popular Front Government. Leader Jouhaux could not afford to lose it, even in one group of industries, without a fight...
...judgement. Such a plan is really of great value, for not only does it assist government concentrators in accurately planning their in-course preparation for divisionals, but it also affords men in other fields the opportunity of choosing an interesting side-line in a subject almost universally popular. The plan should certainly be extended...
...response to popular demand the Holyoke Film Series is presenting second showing of "A Nous la Liberte" at 10:20 o'clock on Thursday evening in Cantabrigia Hall...
...Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and Russia. A first edition is shown of "Max und Moritz," which is the ancestor of the modern comic strip and which has its modern counterpart in the "Katzenjammer Kids" and "The Captain and the Kids," Represented by three editions is "Slovenly Peter," the most popular children's book ever written, with over 8,000,000 copies turned out thus far. Original drawings are shown for the "Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear" stories of Uncle Remus, whose real name was A. B. Frost...