Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alben Barkley is not the most popular man in the Senate. Behind him lined up mostly zealous New Dealers and freshmen Senators. Pat Harrison, on the other hand, is one of the best-liked Senators. Behind him lined up most of the anti-Roosevelt Democrats who knew he was a conservative at heart, and seasoned Senators to whom Pat Harrison is a grand old guy. Being as loyal as Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison has stood by the President, even unto the Supreme Court Bill, but not with vociferous enthusiasm. Thus both contenders were in favor of the Court Bill...
Unlike some other popular servants, Harry will not have to retire. He can hang around and make himself at home the rest of his life because he is "just as much a part of this institution as is the dome over this building." Since Harry's chief functions are guarding the committee's door and running errands, observers believed last week that Harry would continue to sit by the door, let his assistant do the leg work. If that young buck (to be chosen by Harry) serves as wisely & well for the next 63 years...
...proved popular talk for to Socialist rank-&-filers the Senate is anathema because of the way it is elected. Deputies to the Chamber are chosen all at once by universal male suffrage, either at four-year intervals or whenever the President ascertains that no Premier can find a majority, and orders the Chamber dissolved. Senators are elected for nine-year terms, an election taking place every three years for one-third of the Senate. They are chosen not by universal suffrage but by electoral colleges whose members are Deputies or elected delegates from communes and departments. Senatorial candidates must...
...Stringfellow Barr. a stocky, redheaded, well-dressed intellectual who was long one of the University of Virginia's most popular lecturers but is best known as editor of the Virginia Quarterly, St. John's should prove a stimulating challenge. By last week President-elect Barr had rounded up four bright young faculty-men from Chicago and one from Oxford, where he once studied as a Rhodes Scholar. The Barr-Hutchins liberal arts ideal Educator Hutchins described before sailing for a European vacation last week: "St. John's is an excellent place to try out the idea...
...half dozen similar books were already in bookstores.* The A. M. A. was ready to lend doctors a talkie from which they could learn how to diagnose and treat syphilis. This technical film, prepared by A. M. A. and U. S. Public Health Service experts, matched a "popular" film, prepared by the U. S. P. H. S. which Surgeon General Parran was eager to have shown throughout the nation...