Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What certain Senators and a few newspapers said was quite unfair. My purpose was, as you note, to treat the larger issue of judicial abuses and minority action in the Senate against immense majority popular votes. My fear is that this sort of thing may some day so divide parties that we shall have dangers before us not unlike those of Italy and Germany in years past. The majority of one's people may not always be right but minorities certainly have made greater blunders...
...mistake, you've sent a gout up to maternity"), 40 photographs (John D. Rockefeller Sr., nudes, still life, Mussolini holding his nose), seven color plates (Hogarth's The Graham Children, Correggio's Venus, Mercury and Cupid). Editor is Hungarian-born Stefan Lorant, capable but not popular in Fleet Street. He first made a name on the Münchner Illustrierte Presse, was tossed into jail for six months when Hitler came to power, wrote a book about it (I was Hitler's Prisoner), then built up Weekly Illustrated for Odhams Press Ltd. An indicated...
...pets, ornaments and toys, chameleons are more popular in the U. S. than any other reptile. Like hot dogs or lollipops, they are peddled in great numbers by circuses, fairs and carnivals, mostly to people who have no idea how to feed and water them. This wholesale trade was last week giving some concern to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, because it has been found that chameleons help Florida celery growers by eating destructive caterpillars and moths, and the Department now believes that they help suppress insect pests on other truck crops in Southeastern and Gulf States...
Contrary to popular belief, the American chameleon (Anolis carolinensis) does not assume the color of its surroundings. Its color changes, partly reflex and partly voluntary, are stimulated by temperature, illumination, emotion. In summer the chameleon can be given the run of a screened porch, but in winter it needs a cage with plenty of sunlight shining through glass netting or fine screen. Chameleons can drink only by lapping up drops of water sprinkled on plants; hence many die of thirst even with a pan of water in their cages...
...Maryland marriage law. Although this law, requiring a 48-hr. interim between applying for a license and being wed, took effect June 1, Maryland's Constitution permits the lifting and postponement of its laws by public petition within 30 days. The law is then submitted to popular referendum at the next election of U. S. Representatives.*Maryland taximen, who make good money driving out-of-State couples to the marriage mills,† obtained 13,007 signatures of registered voters (3,007 more than required) and Maryland's mills ground merrily on, with November 1938 their distant and dubious...