Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King by the Grace of God and the Will of the People" is what astute, courageous, popular Vittorio Emanuele III was long before Il Duce added the title of "Emperor." Last week His Majesty surprised casual foreign observers-not Italians-by making Adolf Hitler's visit to Italy the occasion for visibly demonstrating that Benito Mussolini is not the whole cheese in Italy-although he is of course The Big Cheese, as Neville Chamberlain is in England...
Awards are based on an elaborate combination of quasi-popular election and committee choice. Ballots are sent to key women in W. N. R. C. affiliated organizations, radio chairmen and others who are expected to represent radio views of their respective groups. Tie votes are broken by deliberation of a committee which includes American Legion Auxiliary Radio Committee Chairman Mrs. William H. Corwith, Child Study Association's Miss Josette Frank, former W. N. R. C. Chairman Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan and W. N. R. C. Chairman Mme Yolanda Mero-Irion...
...placed for this decline in what was formerly the backbone of education is difficult to determine. Certainly some of it can be attributed to "the tempo of modern life" with its insistence on immediate, practical, marketable qualities. The rapid shift in the last decade from English as the most popular field, through Economics during the great Depression, and now to Government since we have lost faith in unhampered economic forces as a social panacea, illustrates the variable nature of students' desires...
...undiscriminating. This year's choices were no exception. Despite the approving babble of occupants of University chairs in poetics on its announcement, the poetry award went to a woman, a sort of minor Edna Millay, whose poems are completely negligible. They are readable and sufficiently sentimental to be a popular choice; they have a certain dexterity and gloss, often substituted for technical superiority and thought, easily overcoming the defences of mediocre critics, but they are hopelessly trivial. These triumphs in the treble of Marya Zaturenska and the glibness of Robert Hillyer have evidently rung louder in the cars...
...anticipate that this will become a school to train leaders, and, through them, the people at large how to translate democratic ideals of administration into living realities," he continued, making his fundamental object the improvement of public administration through making the government service popular as a life's vocation...