Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt family is not popular in Boston. The Traveler carried "My Day" for two weeks in 1936, dropped it because its readers expressed their dislike for the column...
...TIME, Jan. 30 you described in some detail a new game that was supposed to be very popular in Germany- Juden Raus [Out With he Jews...
...playing cards, published in 1865, quoting from the memoirs of Barere and de Bachaumont, says that creps was one of the principal games played in the gambling houses of the Palais Royal in Paris in the latter part of the 18th Century. In 1818, long before craps was popular in the U. S., the Bibliothéque Historique referred to "one table of craps" as among the frivolities of the gambling houses of Paris...
...FORTUNE'S survey (May issue) revealed that in two months Franklin Roosevelt's general batting average had taken an extraordinary drop from 63.5% of popular approval to 58.8%, that whereas in March 36.9% of the population felt like voting for him in 1940 if he ran, now only 33.2% felt like it. But this survey was compiled before the Hitler-Mussolini peace message...
...news. Just before Roosevelt I retired from the Presidency, Alfred Mahan asked him to urge William Howard Taft "on no account to divide the battleship force between the two coasts. . . ." Whereupon T. R. wrote "Dear Will: . . . I should obey no direction of Congress and pay heed to no popular sentiment, if it went wrong in so vital a matter. . . . Keep the battle fleet either in one ocean or the other. . . ." Roosevelt I qualified by saying "prior to the completion of the Panama Canal," but today's admirals as good students of Alfred Mahan believe in one fleet always together...