Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the latest and most successful reincarnation of this popular character last week placed on trial a leader of the most ill-famed U. S. political machine, small wonder that Western Union alone filed 40,000 words to the newspapers of the U. S. on the opening...
...popular young hero appeared last week in the flesh of Thomas Edmund Dewey, 36, who, unlike his counterparts in Hollywood and elsewhere, has as his chief asset not theatricality but thoroughness. Thoroughly for three years he went about smashing the prostitution, restaurant and poultry rackets of New York City (TIME, Aug. 15, et ante) while his files on the "numbers" or "policy" racket, most lucrative of all, slowly accumulated. And last week, when his big numbers racket case finally went to trial, there was only one defendant, the biggest single political boss remaining in Tammany's battered machine...
...boldest political maneuvers in French history was attempted this week by Premier Edouard Daladier. More than once before the hardheaded, middle-of-the-road Premier has tried unsuccessfully to trade in his coalition (The Popular Front) for a new coalition-to shake off his left-wing allies, the Communists and Socialists, and secure new right-wing al lies in their place. This time he acted swiftly and directly: he slapped his allies in the face. In a pugnacious nationwide broadcast, he announced flatly that the time had come for France to repeal the law which has been the keystone...
...extraordinary meeting. No one questions that powerful President Cárdenas has been the most popular, most personally democratic, most politically radical of the 45 presidents whom Mexico has had in 114 years. But, whereas Franklin Roosevelt will have to break solemn precedents to run for a third term, Lázaro Cárdenas to run for a second term would have to break not only the Mexican Constitution (for which there is plenty of precedent) but his own word. He has repeatedly pledged himself to retire in 1940 when his six-year term expires...
...Most popular Calypso singer is The Lion (real name: Hubert Raphael Charles), a young black buck who was taken to Manhattan in 1936 by Ralph Perez, successively a Calypso specialist for Columbia and Decca. The Lion, however, proved the most censorable of the Calypsonians, all of whose records Mr. Perez must submit to British officials before they may be sold in Trinidad. The Lion's share of the 1937 carnival was his song Netty-Netty, voted the most popular by the public, but banned on the island. On sale in the U. S., its words are allegedly unprintable...