Word: popularity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...castor-oil operation may, as the Italian press claimed, merely have removed faithful servants so that other faithful servants might have their hour. But foreign commentators could not help noticing an obvious common denominator: the important purgees were strongly pro-Axis. Only ministers left were Foreign Minister Count Ciano, popular Minister of Justice Dino Grandi, Premier Mussolini himself (War, Navy, Air, Interior), and three others-the neutrality bloc. Italy, it seemed, wanted no entangling alliances...
...sulky race, but Candidate Almazán has picked up much support and he is given an outside chance to win. The P. R. M. did not have to think even once last week before it nominated President Lázaro Cárdenas' favorite, a popular oldtime fighter who subdued the Catholic rebellion of 1928 and the Cedillo revolt last year, onetime Minister of National Defense General Manuel Avila Camacho. Since January 1938 he has been training for the presidency on a regime of "silence on important issues...
...what the Church of the Holy Comforter needed, its rector quite frankly decided, was a good, popular tomb. Five years before, the Episcopal diocese of Chicago had been about to abandon the Church of the Holy Comforter (29 members and communicants) when young, handsome, go-getting Rev. Leland Hobart Danforth asked for a chance at the parish. Just out of seminary, he took over at $35 per month, increased the congregation to 500. On a visit to Washington's National Cathedral, he saw what a drawing card the tomb of Woodrow Wilson was. Father (because high church) Danforth resolved...
...Baton Rouge, La., undefeated, untied, unscored-on Tennessee, still the No. 1 popular choice to represent the East in the Rose Bowl, smashed a slam-bang Louisiana State team that had previously trounced Holy Cross, Rice, Loyola and Vanderbilt. Tennessee...
...editing of which his chief concern has been "to interest a reader whom doubtless I shall never meet."† As frequently happens in the handling of serious work in the U. S., his publishers tried by various jacket ruses to disguise the book as a popular commodity; but from its opening pages onward it steadily gave them...