Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used for religious services. The Jesuits had evangelized Lower California from the time they appeared in the New World, but by 1767 -six years before the Order was suppressed by the Pope because of secular outcries against it-the black-cassocked fathers and their work in California became unpopular and they were ousted. Their work was taken over by brown-cassocked Franciscans under the leadership of 54-year-old Fray Junipero, who had been born in Majorca, missionized in Mexico, learned the tongue of the Fame Indians and taught at the college of San Fernando...
...whole their election was all to Tammany's advantage. After the city had been run to the verge of bankruptcy where there was little profit left in running it and scandal was getting knee deep, it paid to let a Fusion mayor clean house and undertake the unpopular duty of raising taxes and cutting expenses until the city was once more a profitable institution for Tammany to run. And no Fusion mayor was ever reelected...
...London last week. The pro-German clique in Mayfair was purring. Anthony Eden had plucked up courage to ignore wholly unproved German charges that a Leftist Spanish torpedo or submarine had "grazed and dented" the German cruiser Leipzig. Finally, the German Ambassador to Britain, Joachim von Ribbentrop, extremely unpopular in London, was supposed to have been only bluffing when he demanded, a few days prior, that Britain and France join Germany and Italy in staging a mighty four-power naval demonstration off Valencia to warn the Spanish Leftist Government not to do any more "denting" with submarines or torpedoes...
...almost at hand, and neither army will eat this autumn unless the barns are filled in the next few weeks. Reliable reports, too, had it that Rightist Franco's German and Italian backers were giving him his last chance, knowing that the Spanish adventure has become intensely unpopular with humble citizens in Germany and Italy...
During the 52 years George Bannerman Dealey has worked for and run the Dallas News (a.m.) and Journal (p.m..), those newspapers have taken more than one unpopular but righteous stand. They were against the Ku Klux Klan during its heyday in Texas in the early 19205. They bucked demagogic Governor "Jim" Ferguson. They refused to take oil promotion advertising during the Burkburnett, Ranger, Eastland and East Texas booms. Last week, seven days after the Legislature outlawed all forms of race-track betting in Texas, Publisher Dealey, now 77, again placed his papers in the position of doing the virtuous thing...