Word: populars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...present refugee crisis the Intergovernmental Committee needed practical assistance. Ambassador Kennedy and the British engaged in earnest efforts to find a colony or colonies where German Jews could find a haven-the British to supply the land, the U. S. to lend financial assistance. Already the new force of popular feeling was making a new and more active U. S. foreign policy...
Most immediate effect of this would have been to raise the prices of meat, butter and milk which Englishmen were buying in large duty-free quantities from nearby European nations. "E. F. T." has never been tremendously popular except among English farmers and dairymen, but that was the platform on which Unionist (Conservative) Candidate Aitken won his seat and kept it for six years. It has also served as the keystone of his personality and papers ever since...
Gruen, noted for its slender, popular-priced watches, had done little business during Depression. It was run by two quiet, conservative brothers, Fred and George Gruen, sons of Founder Dietrich Gruen, who died in 1911 after making the first thin pocket watch by flattening out the movement. With a Swiss chalet-style factory called Time Hill in Cincinnati, and another in Biel, Switzerland, the Gruens operated along conservative lines, licensed one or two dealers to a city, clung to the prestige of their name regardless of profits...
Genial, self-made, industrious, he is as obscure and as popular as his predecessor...
...More popular in England than in the U. S., Hitchcock pictures like The 39 Steps, Secret Agent are often too intricately built and written to appeal to mass audiences. To connoisseurs of spy melodrama, they rate as classics, and play steady revival engagements in Manhattan and London. Hitchcock lives in a walk-up flat in London, spends his weekends gardening at his cottage in Surrey. Now 38, he has been directing English pictures for 14 years, will work in Hollywood for the first time next February when he goes there to make Titanic and Rebecca for David Selznick...