Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Issue was, of course, the Tariff, the politics of which Nominee Taft so miscalculated that he was astonished when the reactionary Payne-Aldrich bill, signed by him, proved unpopular...
...Smedley Darlington ("Gimlet Eye") Butler, Philadelphia's Director of Public Safety from 1923 to 1925. General Butler, taking time out from a rip-snorting career in the U. S. Marine Corps, so disciplined his men and so terrorized the gangsters that before he left he had made himself unpopular also with the pleasure-loving Better Element. His farewell to the city included the charge that the then Mayor, W. Freeland Kendrick, was unwilling to disturb rich prohibition violators or alleged violators, such as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Since General Butler's departure, Philadelphia policemen have paid as high...
Bored, he traveled abroad. In England he studied oratory, and municipal ownership. In Russia he communed with Tolstoy, and also lectured the handsome young Tsar on free speech. In Japan he took a bath which fascinated a large audience. In six countries he observed government ownership of railroads-another unpopular cause which he promptly championed upon his return to America...
...there appeared in the Oxford Isis an editorial denouncing "Buchmanism." Like all criticism of this cult, the editorial received wide publicity. Observers in the U. S. supposed that English collegians, like the majority of their U. S. fellows, had been stung to fury by an unauthorized insertion of an unpopular propaganda. Such a supposition was not encouraged by a letter which was soon published in the London Times...
...sanctity of the American home. Divorce may be seemingly sensational in title, appearance and the character of its news, but it serves a real purpose in giving emphasis to the details which flow through the divorce court. Roosevelt once said that the way to obtain the repeal of an unpopular law was to enforce it. . . . If your wife is discontented, let her read Divorce and realize that it is something more than a simple and convenient easement of the bonds. If your husband seems to be wavering, let him read in these pages the misery, the heartaches, the legal dangers...