Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christian gentleman was Dr. Drury but not popular with many St. Paul boys...
...proposed Revenue Act of 1938, reported by the House Ways & Means Committee last fortnight, the undistributed profits tax was retained more in principle than in fact. But the principle is about as popular with businessmen as was the Stamp Act of 1765. Franklin Roosevelt in a strategic retreat last autumn intimated that the obnoxious levy might be modified-provided Congress could find a substitute method to make up for lost revenues...
...Socialist Blum's personal newsorgan, Le Populaire, has been rebuking Stalin harshly about the Moscow trials. When the Communists still insisted upon being friendly last week, Premier Chautemps suddenly talked of asking for powers so sweeping that no Cabinet could have got them and, when leaders of the Popular Front (Communists, Socialists, Radical Socialists) demurred, he claimed in the Chamber that without these powers he could not raise the money France needs for her rearmament-30 billion borrowed francs per year, said the Premier...
This week, after it had repeatedly appeared that a National Government excluding the Communists might be formed at any moment, Socialist Blum finally came forward with another Popular Front Cabinet which he said he had formed "in principle"-that is, he had failed to form a National Government, was by no means sure he had anything that would hold together...
...reading events superficially, are inclined to underestimate this country. For despite these prophets of evil the French situation-so far as internal matters are concerned-is not so desperate as many would like to think. France is very far from having been 'ruined' by the Left Popular Front. There are only 400,000 unemployed out of forty-odd million inhabitants-a figure which compares very favorably with most other countries in which the free capital system is still maintained...