Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calling reports of disaffection exaggerated, Mr. Carney left-handedly discussed Generalissimo Franco's popularity, made the perplexing statement that the Generalissimo was more popular in the south, traditionally Leftist, than in the north, which used to vote Right. He failed to explain...
Occasion was the funeral of popular Captain Vicente de Eguía of the Militia, killed on the Ebro front...
Premier Daladier has lengthened French working hours by scrapping the 40-Hour-Week Law in "industries vital to national safety." He has broken with the Communist Party, formerly a pillar of the French Popular Front coalition, to the delight of Berlin. And Premier Daladier has recognized the Italian conquest in Ethiopia by appointing Andre Frangois-Poncet to Rome as the first French Ambassador ever accredited to "Emperor Vittorio Emanuele." All this meant that France had been scared into swerving Right...
...anesthesia, they will grow uninhibited by the defenses of the body during the entire period of unconsciousness . . . regardless of the amount of immunity possessed by the body. . . . They may easily become so numerous that inflammation developing after recovery of consciousness may be unable to overcome them." Whether the popular habit of killing a cold with whiskey contributes to the pneumonia toll he did not say. Nor did he imply that the phrase "alcoholic intoxication" meant anything less than "dead drunk...
...Most popular fall sport has been tennis, according to Samborski. Approximately 600 men have participated in the University, Freshman, Business School, and the eight House tournaments...