Word: popularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week the governor, after sifting through 232 names, finally made his choice. To fill out the remaining 13 months of Clyde Reed's term he appointed Harry Darby, a husky, gregarious son of a boilermaker who built himself into Kansas' No. 1 industrialist. It was a popular choice...
...earners worked at income levels which smothered incentive: a ship's cook often earned more than a ship's captain; bus drivers, postmen and newspaper reporters got more or less the same pay. Taxes ate away people's earnings. Many imports, especially automobiles, were rationed, leaving popular demand unsatisfied. Thousands of young New Zealanders emigrated to find freer opportunities abroad...
Rich, smart, handsome and popular, Vicente Eli Saadi seemed to have just what it takes for a brilliant political career. When a vacancy in the federal Senate occurred in the Argentine province of Catamarca three years ago, Deputy Saadi, the son of Syrian immigrants, was elected to the job by his Peronista colleagues in the provincial legislature. In Buenos Aires, Senator Saadi rose rapidly -to chairman of an important committee, then to floor leader of the Peronista majority. But one day he made a little mistake; during a closed session of the Senate he arose to object to the presence...
Walter Stuempfig is a stoop-shouldered Philadelphian with an unruly little mustache and a worried look. He has less to worry about than most artists, for at 35 Stuempfig is a solid critical and popular success: he has sold out three one-man shows in six years and won a reputation as the foremost young "romantic" painter in the U.S. Stuempfig's latest exhibition, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, did nothing to diminish that reputation, but it did raise a question : How romantic...
...second son of a Spanish nobleman, had no money of his own. The law of primogeniture had sent him packing to the New World in search of his fortune. Five years before, in 1535, he had arrived in Mexico City at the side of the viceroy; an "attractive and popular" man, he had been made governor of Nueva Galicia, the province just northwest of the capital...