Word: populars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Candidate Pedro Aquirre Cedra, 59, leader of the Radical party (which, like the Radical Socialist group in France, is nearer centre than left) made his money as a lawyer and farmer. In the election he was backed by a Popular Front of Radical, Socialist and Communist Parties, the first in South America...
...last moment Chile's ineffective Nacistas (Nazis), angered because their candidate was jailed as an "extremist'' after an abortive Nazi uprising month ago, spurned a logical tie-up with the rightist parties and threw in their lot with the Popular Front...
...problem: Does a candidate who takes the customary air time of a popular program draw to himself the attention or the hostility of the program's audience? Candidate Dewey* last week bought on Station WJZ (Manhattan) 30 minutes of Tuesday evening time, half of which usually goes to the Information Please program. Although he was still talking when his time was up, WJZ cut him off to pick up the second half of Information Please, on which Harpo Marx was a noisily silent guest juror,† By telephone Information Please fans berated NBC for giving part of the program...
...Both made art critics wish for their enlargement to a less inti mate scale, and Wheelock's conception of Old Brooklynite Whitman stirred up local talk of monumentalizing the poet. In Manhattan, meanwhile. Justin Sturm, famed ex-Yale end ('21). ex-novelist. Westport, Conn.'s most popular sculptor, had an exhibition at the Karl Freund Galleries in which a wonderful lack of subconscious or other depth (see col. 2) appeared in several homey, well-finished studies...
...Ticker, student weekly, for "obscenity." He once censored the Monthly, has suspended editors for sauciness. Last week student editors learned that in 1934 Dean Moore wrote a book called Mexican Love, hitherto unknown to U. S. readers because it was published in London by Herbert Jenkins, Ltd., publishers of popular fiction...