Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration. Herbert Hoover was not so generous with his time; he was able to speak for only a few minutes on his way through the Square, but, in a CRIMSON-sponsored poll of the University, he was found to be the most popular candidate among Harvard men anyway...
...changes of government, the Portuguese in 1932 were only too glad to turn their problems over to Dictator Salazar, who has been running the country with quiet efficiency and no organized opposition ever since. The rare eccentric who dares to raise his voice against the regime gets so little popular support that Salazar can afford to be quite polite about...
Whispering Campaign. An increasingly popular tactic among the pundits has been to quote Eisenhower speeches and extracts from the Republicans' 1952 and 1956 campaign platforms in an attempt to prove, as the New York Daily News's John ("Capitol Stuff") O'Donnell charged recently, that Ike has repudiated his promise to resist "socialist" spending. In fact, argues David Lawrence, Eisenhower -and the Republican platforms as well-coppered their campaign promises of Government economies with the qualification that none would be allowed at the expense of the defense program or vital domestic services...
...York Herald Tribune's Ike-minded Roscoe Drummond said that the President "is fighting the wrong battle on the wrong ground with the wrong weapons." Stewart Alsop, also of Lawrence's home paper, the Trib, said: "The betting is still that Congress will do to the popular Eisenhower what it never dared to do to the unpopular Truman-hack away at his whole foreign policy program with a meat ax all along the line." Fair-Dealing Doris Fleeson even started one column: "The President has lost his budget fight." Lawrence, who is still being bombarded with critical mail...
Britain is just starting the tests that will make it the third member (with the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.) of the Big Bomb League. Perhaps for this reason few British scientists have joined the widespread popular clamor against the tests. Viscount Cherwell, Churchill's wartime scientific adviser, is vehement against "hysterical people" who would sacrifice "a deterrent which would probably save us from a war costing millions of lives" on the ground "that our tests might harm the health of a completely negligible part of the human race." British medical authorities are not so sure. The authoritative medical journal...