Word: popularizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Modern Republican is gradually being abandoned in favor of a better one: Platform Republican. Rising in a nearly deserted Senate chamber last week, New York's Jacob Javits urged "my colleagues in my party not to abandon either the principles or the programs which have been proven by popular acceptance . . ." In Spokane. Attorney General Herbert Brownell defined the Modern Republican: "One who believes in and pressed for action on the 1956 Republican platform." Vice President Nixon reminded a Washington convention of the budget-whacking U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see BUSINESS) that "the budget is high...
...White House meeting with the League of Women Voters to lecture on the need for foreign aid (see below). At week's end Ike was preparing a TV speech to the nation to defend his budget. But would the speech be delivered too late to rally popular support for the budget? The new penny-pinching Democrats hoped so, because they were delighted to see the Republicans split on the issue of economy. Favorite Democratic cloakroom joke of the week: "If Ike does go on TV to defend his budget, the Republican Party should demand equal time to answer...
...Popular government faces its ultimate test tomorrow. In a last, strenuous effort to "do something for the student, instead of just talking about it," the Student Council nine will take to the field, Larry Johnson '58, chief Councileer, announced yesterday...
Glinka: A Life for the Tsar (the National Opera of Belgrade, Oscar Danon conducting; London, 4 LPs). In this Communist-approved version of Glinka's 19th-century flag-waver, as in other current versions, attention has been directed away from the young Tsar and focused on the heroic popular leaders of the national uprising against the invading Poles in 1611-13. With that party-line emendation, the opera's melodramatic plot has been preserved intact. Weak in leading roles (Bass Miro Changalovich and Soprano Maria Glavachevich), the present version is thunderously impressive in its choral and ensemble passages...
Died. Nils Thor ("N.T.G.") Granlund, 57, lanky girlie-show producer and one of America's first popular radio announcers (on Theaterman Marcus Loew's station WHN, opened in 1922) ; of injuries suffered in an auto accident; in Las Vegas...