Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Popular "Church" Mehard was accused of settling damage claims against the city out of court, taking $11,299 m kickbacks from litigants' attorneys. During his first month in office, the city paid out $16,-981.75 in such settlements; during his last, $131)990. Stumpy Lawyer Morris Levy (also indicted) testified that he paid Churchill Mehard $1,300 to settle favorably one case. "He never paid me one dime in this or any other case," cried Churchill Mehard. The jury believed Morris Levy...
...noticeable only because they are black or because they blatantly insist on their race's rights. Oscar De Priest and his successor, Arthur Mitchell, only two Negroes elected to the U. S. Congress since Reconstruction, rated far below average in ability. Not so Homer Brown. Quiet, effective, popular, he is sought out by his white colleagues for his opinions on constitutional law-which is his heavyweight hobby. That attribute, plus his oratorical persuasiveness, pegs him as the lower house's most influential member on nonpartisan legislation. No stooge for his party, Homer Brown voted to impeach Pittsburgh...
...Bette Davis in Dark Victory; in Rome, where they are laughing at a boy-meets-girl comedy called Two Dozen Red Roses and singing a tuneful song called It Was Folly; in Russia, where football squads are drilling for the summer season; in London, where the most popular song is Deep Purple. Over the crisis-worn continent last week the people were moving under cloudless skies; the wheat was up, the fishing was good, and a wave of celebrations, fairs, festivals, holidays, anniversaries, colored the old towns from Liége in Belgium to Brashov in Rumania...
...rained early in the week. Waiting for the opening of the $1,000,000 Slujec Race Track in a few days, young bucks were spending their zlotys in swanky hotels like the Bristol and the Europejski, at cabarets along the Nowy Swiat, where thinly clad Czech performers were popular, and a Silesian polka called Trojaki was a hit. On the flat dark lands of Poland, rye, owing to the spring rains, looked like a record crop. Over the Carpathians in Rumania the 3,078,820 peasant families -more than 1,000,000 of them living in plain clay huts, more...
Swing Left. For nearly 18 months, Daladier laid low. Then in 1935, the French Popular Front of Leftist parties was formed. Herriot balked at the Radical Socialists going far enough Left to join with Communists; Leftist Daladier, swinging further Left, plunged in. Said he, "I represent the petite bourgeoisie and I declare that the middle class and the working class are natural allies." He marched in the big Popular Front demonstration of July 14, 1935, between Communists Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos, gave the clenched-fist Communist salute, swore fidelity to the Popular Front at the Bastille...