Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to the doorkeeper, the average number of people entering the building during the 13 hours of each week day is 2600, and on Sunday which seems to be an unpopular day for studying, there is an average attendance...
Onus. Who was responsible for calling an election that is generally unpopular with the public? The Laborites declared that it was the Liberals, who, by joining the Conservatives, had deliberately turned them out of office on a trivial issue. The Liberals contend that the Labor Government was to blame, because it refused to "face an impartial inquiry into the circumstances which led to the withdrawal of the prosecution" against Editor Campbell. The Conservatives most heartily concurred with the Liberal contention. The Times of London said...
...into the annual convention of the Labor Party to start his campaign. And this campaign will be waged with applause still drowning out the murmur of the Russian affair, with the Conservatives unprepared, and with the Liberals undecided which way to turn, shouldering MacDonald's own responsibility for the unpopular election. Almost by coincidence a new electoral register comes into force on October 15, giving the Labor party with its far superior clerical machinery a distinct advantage...
...election promises was to abolish the unpopular 20% tax in- crease imposed by Premier Poincare (TiME, Jan. 28). This he how found himself unable to do. His difficulties...
...Berlin some weeks ago, Roland Hayes, Negro tenor (TIME, Oct. 8), gave a concert. To Germans, black men are "colonials"; they encountered them in the French line during the War; more recently, in the Ruhr. Learning that a member of this unpopular race was to appear publicly in their midst, Berliners were indignant. Protests were made to the American Ambassador against the "impertinence" of permitting a Negro to be heard on the concert stage, against the lèst majesté of offering musically scrupulous Berlin the tunes of the Georgia cotton-pickers. Hayes appeared. He sang his first number...