Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of Frenchmen were about to spring full-armed from the sewers of Paris, seize the Chamber of Deputies and make use of the facsimile signatures of Cabinet ministers, such a monstrous plot was no laughing matter. The key to Last week's riddle in French popular psychology was, of course, that strong nerves and shrewdness are leading French characteristics. Jean Frenchman figured that if the Reds, Pinks and Pale-Pinks-i.e., the Communist, Socialist and Radical Socialist supporters of the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps-were content to let Justice and the police take their...
Minas Geraes, the most populous Brazilian State, still retained this week its popular Governor Benedicto Valladares. By decrees last week President Vargas completed his work of kicking out the governors of the other 19 States, replacing each with a federal interventor. Ex-Governor José Antonio Flores da Cunha of the State of Rio Grande do Sul was ordered tried on charges of having ordered $1,000,000 worth of munitions from Germany, recently, apparently had hoped to use them to right what he considers States' wrongs...
Among his 150-odd compositions, chief importance attaches to his seven symphonies, acknowledged masterpieces in a form that has been successfully tackled only by a handful of the greatest figures in music. The first two symphonies-more ingratiating, less austere than the rest- have long been popular...
...cold water was considered a drink for connoisseurs to sip. But of late the public taste for his invigorating music has reached the proportions of thirsty demand. In 1935 a poll of the Columbia Broadcasting System's U. S. and Canadian listeners gave him first place in popularity (Beethoven was second) among all composers, past and present. This autumn Manhattan's Radio City MusicHall Conductor Erno Rapee unhesitatingly undertook to broadcast Sibelius' entire set of seven symphonies. The Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra play them far oftener than the once-popular symphonies of Tchaikovsky and Cesar Franck...
Paralyzed, France sought an alliance with Russia which became a mutual assistance pact last year. Not popular with many at home, regarded with suspicion by conservative diplomats, the treaty proved to be more of a liability in French attempts to draw closer to Great Britain...