Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revision. Not for Franklin Roosevelt but for business, Congress drastically revised the unpopular levies on capital gains and undistributed corporate profits (TIME, June 6, et ante...
Reorganization, Representatives with their ears to the ground, sensing that the President's plan for reorganizing the executive branch of the Government, was one of. his few unpopular proposals (see p. 14), shelved it, went home without doing or attempting to do anything about...
...fashioned concepts under which Williams developed. These concepts were mostly of a negative character: to present both sides of a question, to tolerate opposite viewpoints, to disdain from actual participation in contemporary struggles. Today Williams is becoming imbued with a new liberalism. Talking in negatives is, becoming unpopular. The fight must be for the preservation of education itself. We cannot see the views of those who attack freedom of speech and thought. We cannot be tolerant of those who would destroy tolerance. We cannot refrain from fighting for the organizations, such as the C. I. O., which we consider...
...British factories are filled to capacity with orders!" After hours of acrimonious debate, the Cabinet won a vote of confidence by only 299-to-131, and it was clear that Swinton would have to be permitted to resign, as planned by Tactician Chamberlain, to provide a scapegoat for the unpopular "American purchases...
...Salvemini, noted as an opponent of the Fascist regime in Italy, pointed out that half a billion lire, or $25,000,000 has been spent to entertain Der Feuhrer. "Mussolini wants to make a big show," he said, revealing that the Rome-Berlin axis has been unpopular in Italy for some time, even among members of the Fascist Party. He said that it was his belief that most of the real treaty-making and bickering had been done before Hitler's visit, or will be done now that he has departed...