Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago an association of A. E. F. men was synonymous with an association of public servants, but self-interest and over-emphasis on comradeship have at times threatened to alienate the Legion from the public's best interests. Their unpopular ceremoniousness cannot now hope to whitewash Gaeta. He is beyond that. But the Legion, in disgracing the nation's colors in Revere this week, has shown its own colors and ideals to be perverted...
...ideal person to insure the Duke of Windsor the kind of reception he got when he visited the U. S. as Prince of Wales in 1924. He announced that he had telephoned the Duke of Windsor to offer to resign in favor of a less unpopular guide. The Duke's reply was "Charles, pay no attention to these low accusations. Go right ahead." Trying to obey, Efficiency Expert Bedaux encountered more obstacles. Said he the next afternoon: "Up to 1 o'clock I was very gay. Since then something has happened. . . ." Whether or not the something...
Having yielded so much in the unpopular direction of Wall Street, the Reserve Board last week made a gesture in the opposite direction. In deference to amateur economists who believe that short selling by wolves of Wall Street is responsible for all recessions in stock prices,* the Board, for the first time in its history, imposed a margin requirement on short selling- 50%. This gave the impression that bears were to be regulated more strictly than bulls, who are now permitted 40% margins...
...expense of being called a very unpopular person, I think it's my duty to warn the betting community in Harvard College that it would not be wise to go overboard on this game...
...must be obvious to the new leaders of the Harvard Student Union that to be seduced once again into a national group that robs them, and tries to commit them to political alliances which can only be unpopular on the Harvard Yard, will serve to reduce rather than increase their support and respect from the general student body. For such a promising start to land on the shoals as it is leaving harbor would be a major set-back for the Harvard Student Union's ambitious program for the current academic year...