Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Commented FORTUNE: "The indignation here seems to be directed specifically at the leadership of the present union movement. Some of it is certainly intended for union rackets. Some of it may be inspired by a feeling that Lewis has overplayed his cards and brought a useful cause into popular disrepute. Some of it may even arise from a belief that Green, in contrast with Lewis, has been too inactive in the service of organized labor...
Predicting there will be no general war this year, Herbert Hoover sailed into Manhattan this week on the French liner Normandie, wound up a tour of 15 countries in nearly all of which he is as popular as Santa Claus, was rousingly cheered, hailed as an American Liberal...
Since Premier Benito Mussolini is an omnivorous newspaper reader, French journalism was thus last week doing the Spanish Leftists the worst possible disservice, for this week II Duce was able to hurl at the French Popular Front Cabinet of Léon Blum threats that unless France stop such shipments of munitions, Italy will take measures of intervention far beyond any she has yet taken. Declared Informazione Diplomatica, the most highly authoritative newsorgan controlled by the Italian Government: "Such intervention would have unpredictable and certainly very grave repercussions and might compromise peace on the European Continent...
...generous policy in setting up the Center at a great expense. To make the gift complete, however, one addition is needed, which the University can provide with only a slight financial outlay. A reading-room, stocked with a few novels and with books required for outside reading in the popular courses, would make the Students' Center still more valuable to non-residents...
...honors candidates. These exams, which supposedly test a candidate's knowledge of his allied field, offer twelve choices--four each for the man in History and Government, for the one in History and Economics, and for the one in Government and Economics. Government Regulation of Industry is the most popular; International Relations and American Constitutional History are next. In theory their scope must be extensive in order to allow a student enough wall space to hang his knowledge, yet in eight years of experimentation examiners have found that in practice they become merely repititious tests of course material. This...