Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boards and Bureaus and Commissions of the Government have in recent weeks met with so much criticism that they are in a fair way to becoming more unpopular than Congress. The Tariff Commission has borne a very substantial share of the faultfinding...
...forced the reduction in wages. He listed: 1) overexpansion of the woolen industry during the War, so that now, with Southern mills producing the coarser fabrics, and the finer ones being imported from abroad, the New England mills are in difficulties; 2) a change in fashions that made worsteds unpopular during the past season...
...clear majority, both at the primaries and in the returns to Parliament, where his party secured 126 out of 214 seats. The British (who granted the Constitution), through their pawn Ziwar, compelled the dissolution of Parliament. Ziwar and his party have never been elected to office and they remain unpopular with the Egyptians...
...great task, it is the cause of the toiling and producing millions. We are still in the minority. Our cause is still unpopular, for it opposes the established order of things and expresses ideas which are in advance of the times. Nevertheless, we will sweep into power and establish democracy on a worldwide basis...
...required heavier taxation and reduction of the civil service-both unpopular...