Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Improvisations in June. Big business men are unpopular with playwrights and U. S. big business men are unpopular with Europeans. In this, the latest addition to the Civic Repertory catalogue, a German playwright, Max Mohr, neglecting the scented graces at which his title hints, amuses himself by tossing medicine balls at the ugly face of a U. S. rooney glutton. His satire, which was immensely successful in Europe, is sophisticated and sentimental; it is probable that even the most hardened plutocrat who watches the unfolding of the myth will feel less shamed than delighted when the young lovers, scorning...
...match. He has saved the franc from what seemed irretrievable decline, raised and stabilized it de facto at 25 to the dollar, drastically reduced the French internal debt, and accomplished all this without recourse to foreign credits and without having to secure ratification of the (in France) intensely unpopular Franco-U. S. debt settlement...
...unpopular has the CRIMSON become in the eyes of some Harvard men, according to Dean Nichols, that already there are "whispered threatening of censorship, graduate control, and a University owned newspaper...
...private control after the War, invaded whatever "private rights" a "public utility" may have, by requiring the railroads to pay the Interstate Commerce Commission one-half their profits above 6%. This so-called "recapture" clause, designed to create a revolving fund to help weak companies, has become notably unpopular among railroaders...
...State of Prussia a gift of 80,000 volumes, library of Professor Ernesto Quessada, University of Buenos Aires. Despite protests of the Argentine Government, the professor-unpopular wartime defender of Germany-persisted in his gift, with grateful memories of student days...