Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subsequent developments showed the "defeat" of the Government to be so convenient to Premier Poincaré and President Millerand as to give rise to rumors that the whole thing was a put-up job, staged by M. Poincaé in order to get rid of the unpopular Finance Minister de Lasteyrie and equally unpopular Minister of Agriculture Cheron...
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, Philip Snowden, Socialist, most unpopular member of the Cabinet. Is foremost proponent of Capital Levy and has a "crabbed, gloomy nature...
...represented until 1918; in 1911 he became Leader of the Labor Party, a post which he resigned in 1914 when the Laborites refused to follow him in his pacifist policy; throughout the War he was energetic in trying to stir up trouble, he became one of the most unpopular men in Parliament, he tried to go to Russia?the ship's crew went on strike, he tried to go to Stockholm to meet the Bolsheviki?the Government refused to grant him passports; he became a political nonentity in 1918 and did not regain his seat in the House until...
...these troubles are associated in Touton minds with the Republic, which has become increasingly unpopular. Nor has it been able to keep order. A monarchy, either of the Hohenzollerns or of the rival Bavarian House of Wittelsbach, is again very much talked...
...rule forbidding liquor in university buildings, and incidentally of the Volstead law. This decisive utterance puts the issue clearly, and no future offender will have just cause for complaint. Indeed, it would seem that the only way in which the collegiate public can be wooed from violating an unpopular ordinance will be by unhesitating use of power even at the cost of traditions of personal liberty. N. Y. Times