Popular Front

Examples of Popular Front in the following topics:

• France at the End of the Interwar Period

  • Socialist Leon Blum, leading the Popular Front, brought together Socialists and Radicals to become Prime Minister from 1936 to 1937; he was the first Jew and the first Socialist to lead France.
  • Historians agree that the Popular Front was a failure in terms of economics, foreign policy, and long-term stability.
  • "Disappointment and failure," says Jackson, "was the legacy of the Popular Front."
  • There is general agreement that at first the Popular Front created enormous excitement and expectations on the left—including very large scale sitdown strikes—but in the end it failed to live up to its promise.
  • In the long run, however, later Socialists took some inspiration from the attempts of the Popular Front to set up a welfare state.

• The Sand-Lot Incident

  • During the Long Depression , he became popular by speaking to unemployed people in San Francisco, denouncing the railroad monopoly and immigrant Chinese workers, known as Coolies .
  • Kearney traveled east to popularize his opinions and campaigned with the Massachusetts politician Benjamin Butler , the Greenback Party 's candidate for President .
  • In spite of growing criticism, Kearney's popularity increased.
  • At an outdoor gathering place near San Francisco City Hall, known as "The Sandlot", he regularly spoke in front of crowds that numbered as many as 2,000 people.

• The North African Front

• Renaissance Architecture in Venice

  • This aesthetic, established through Palladio's publications, proved very popular and underwent a revival in the neoclassical period.
  • In the case of Villa Badoer, the open barn, formed by a large circular colonnade enclosing the front yard in front of the villa, created a space that recalled the ancient idea of the Roman Forum, bringing all campaign activities to the front of the villa itself.
  • The front façade of the Villa Foscari features several neoclassical columns.

• Ethane Conformations

  • The hydrogens are then located in the surrounding space by wedge (in front of the plane) and hatched (behind the plane) bonds.
  • Finally, if the viewer looks down the carbon-carbon bond with carbon #1 in front of #2, the Newman projection is seen.
  • Although steric and/or bond electron repulsion remain the most popular explanation for the hindered rotation of ethane, molecular orbital interactions have also been proposed as a significant factor.

• Architecture in the Hellenistic Period

  • Architecture during the Hellenistic period focused on theatricality and drama; the period also saw an increased popularity of the Corinthian order.
  • Architecture in the Hellenistic period is most commonly associated with the growing popularity of the Corinthian order.
  • The decorative Corinthian order was not widely adopted in Greece, although it was popular in tholoi.
  • It was to be flanked by a double colonnade of eight columns across the front and back and twenty-one on the flanks, surrounding the cella.
  • The design was eventually changed to have three rows of eight columns across the front and back of the temple and a double row of twenty on the flanks, for a total of 104 columns.

• The Lost Generation

  • This creative outburst was personified by the "Lost Generation", a term popularized by American author Ernest Hemingway that came to identify the group of writers and artists, many of them expatriates, who created some of the most significant works of the period.
  • At the same time, Jazz and dancing rose in popularity, in opposition to the horrors of World War I.
  • In that same vein, but employing a perspective outside of the American viewpoint, the 1929 novel, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, recounts the horrors of World War I and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front.
  • The cover of the English translation of Erich Remarque's 1929 novel, All Quiet on the Western Front.

• Romanesque Sculpture: Mary as the Throne of Wisdom

  • Mary as the Throne of Wisdom was a popular biblical theme represented throughout Romanesque sculpture.
  • As the phrase associates the Blessed Virgin with glory and with teaching, Madonna-images in this tradition are especially popular in Catholic imagery.
  • In these representations, some structural elements of the throne invariably appear, even if only handholds and front legs.

• Simultaneity

  • A popular picture for understanding relativity of simultaneity is provided by a thought experiment consisting of one observer midway inside a speeding traincar and another observer standing on a platform as the train moves past.
  • The observer onboard the train sees the front and back of the traincar at fixed distances from the source of light and, as such, according to this observer, the light will reach the front and back of the traincar at the same time.
  • The observer standing on the platform, on the other hand, sees the rear of the traincar moving toward the point at which the flash was given off and the front of the traincar moving away from it.
  • As the speed of light is finite and the same in all directions for all observers, the light headed for the back of the train will have less distance to cover than the light headed for the front.

• The Culture of the Roaring Twenties

  • Jazz music experienced a dramatic surge in popularity, and notions of modern womanhood were redefined by the flapper.
  • During the "Jazz Age," jazz and jazz-influenced dance music became widely popular.
  • Dance clubs became enormously popular, and classical music, operettas, and folk music were all transformed into popular dance memories to satisfy the public craze for dancing.
  • Clubs across America sponsored dancing contests; the most popular forms included the foxtrot, the waltz, and the American tango.
  • Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front, was published in 1929.