Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snuff the fuses. He moved his friend, slow-moving Sir Thomas Inskip, from the post of Minister for the Coordination of Defense, where everyone agreed he had been a first-class failure. Chosen to succeed him was Lord Chatfield, recently retired from active service. It was perhaps the most popular Cabinet move Mr. Chamberlain has ever made...
...President Pedro Aguirre, facing the first big job of his month-old Popular Front Government, took charge of the rescue work. Airplanes, many lent by U. S., French and German air lines, were used to ferry food and medical supplies. Two British cruisers, in Chilean waters for a friendship visit, began transporting medical supplies, evacuating refugees and injured. Greatest need was for medical supplies to prevent the spread of tetanus, typhoid, check gangrene. From their Canal Zone base, two U. S. Army bombers roared south loaded with serums. From Chile's neighbor, Argentina, started a fleet of rescue planes...
...popular standards, and by her own, Edna Ferber has been a roaring success. Not only have her fiction and plays made her rich, they have brought her public honors: a Pulitzer Prize, an honorary degree from Columbia University, an invitation to the White House...
Contrary to the popular impression which arose when the money was first given in 1935, the Littauer Center will not be a separate graduate school in the sense that the Law, Business and Medical Schools are. Most of the faculty will be present members of the University faculty, and there will be no separate degree given for work at the Center...
...poetry, which best crystallized post-War pessimism, Eliot's post-Munich pessimism is not the paralyzing kind. "On the contrary," he says, "it is all the more essential that authors who are concerned with that small part of 'literature' which is really creative-and seldom immediately popular-should apply themselves sedulously to their work, without abatement or sacrifice of their artistic standards on any pretext whatsoever...