Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original plans they had "approved." Since well before last Christmas, driving, dictatorial Air Secretary Lord Swinton had been the target of assertions in the largest British papers that he must and would resign, and a suitable occasion would certainly be to offer Swinton as a scapegoat for "unpopular American purchases." The Viscount has been a fixture in Conservative cabinets off & on for 15 years, his friends were confident last week that the Prime Minister will not ease him out, and Swinton is stoutly defended by the leading journal of British sky-fighters, The Aeroplane. This frankly pro-German and most...
...plans for lower daily wages for the building trades, for reorganization of untenable capital structures like the railroads, when it came to the point it has shied away from meeting deflation by the orthodox means of scaling down monopolistic high prices, disproportionate wages and interest charges. "Because it is unpopular to readjust by liquidation and politically inconvenient to revise its policies," summed up Pundit Walter Lippmann last week, "the Administration has come back as a matter of course to inflation by spending...
...James Augustin Brown Scherer, onetime (1908-20) president of California Institute of Technology, last year received from the Japanese Government a jeweled medal, the Imperial Order of the Sacred Treasure. Unlike Dr. Scherer's previous eleven books on Japan, Japan Defies the World, published last January, was unpopular with the Japanese, who promptly banned it. Piqued, Dr. Scherer last week handed back his medal. Said he: "If this emblem was given me to seal my lips, I don't want...
...year-old Herndon got only $300 for his share of the work and for his collection of Lincoln documents that afterwards sold for more than $300,000. Slandered as an atheist, a drunkard, a scandalmonger, a drug addict, Herndon died in 1891, his great monument to his hero disfigured, unpopular, neglected to this...
...separates the flat lands of German East Prussia from the rest of Germany. In 1934. with many troubles on his back, Adolf Hitler shrewdly pacified one enemy by signing a treaty with Poland promising not to agitate the Polish Corridor question for another ten years, a treaty violently unpopular among Germans...