Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid hushed silence Premier Leon Blum arose last week in the Chamber of Deputies and spoke for two hours in defense of his 80-word bill to give the Popular Front Cabinet totalitarian powers. "There is nothing to prevent us from profiting by certain experiences of the totalitarian regimes," observed this persuasive Socialist. "The German example is eloquent in this respect. The democracies cannot longer remain in a state of inferiority compared with the totalitarian countries...
...political bankruptcy of the French Republic as a form of government, although the Communist-Socialist-Radical Socialists have won all their electoral victories as champions of French Democracy. The Chamber, amid much muttering, finally supported Léon Blum 311-to-250-the smallest majority since he formed his Popular Front Cabinet -and he prepared to face the Senate...
There is no doubt that President Roosevelt's action will meet with a warm, popular response in this country. At the same time it must be noted that it represents a sharp change from recent general policy. For the past fourteen years there have been serious restrictions upon immigration; so much so that not more than about 140,000 persons have been allowed to enter the country annually as against the earlier average of 1,000,000. During some of the depression years after 1930 the United States actually lost more aliens, through their returning home, than it gained through...
Collegians of the nation have a lot to do with making a popular song popular as any songwriter or bandleader will tell you, but behind it all is the promotion and publicity given to it--as any music publisher will tell...
Follows this COLLEGIATE DIGEST behind-the-scenes story for an answer to "what makes a popular song popular...