Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prize-winning poem in a patriotic literature contest held by Kodan Kurabu, popular Tokyo monthly, was written by a naval flier...
...home folks, the most popular reportage is done by the poets. No Japanese newspaper is complete without its sprinkling of wartime poetry. No battle is too insignificant, no soldier's deed too small to be unworthy of recording in the stylized, form-bound Japanese lyrics. Under this stimulus, the soldiers themselves have turned to writing poetry, and a favorite Japanese magazine stunt is to hold contests for soldier-poets...
Last January i, Italy tried a new scheme to stimulate domestic production, already largely financed by taxes on U. S. films. Thought up by Minister of Popular Enlightenment Dino Alfieri, the scheme was to tax U. S. films even further by having them distributed in Italy not by their producers' agents but by a Government-financed monopoly. Last week it became apparent that the new scheme was another flop. Having tried it for a month, U. S. producers found the terms of the monopoly prohibitive, announced through Tsar Will Hays that they had entirely ceased distributing their pictures...
...fortnight, looking far from haggard, 180-lb. Churchman Noe once more mounted a Memphis pulpit. More than 100 Memphis citizens, some of them non-Episcopalians, had petitioned the Tennessee Diocesan Convention for permission to form a new parish, to be named St. James'. Permission granted, the parish invited popular Mr. Noe to be its rector. Pending the raising of money to build a church, Mr. Noe's flock planned to meet wherever they could hire or borrow a hall. In his first sermon, preached in a synagogue, Rector Noe promised "the greatest crusade for Christ ever known." Last...
...Refugees Unlimited." Contrary to popular opinion, there are not 25,000 emigre physicians in the U. S. According to the American Medical Association there are only about 1,180. These have trickled in over a period of six years. In a country which boasts 170,000 licensed medical men, 1,180 is an inconsiderable number. Yet a tremendous hue & cry has been raised by American physicians against the hospitality the U. S. has extended to foreign "competitors." Last week Medical Economics which reaches the office of almost every doctor in the U. S., issued a loud blast against "Refugees Unlimited...