Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military instructors from the Spanish front if Fascist states did likewise. In Paris, Deputy Leon Archimbaud rose in the Chamber to announce that 1,000 French volunteers had been repatriated. British and French agents in Germany reported that Adolf Hitler had lost all stomach for the Spanish adventure (always unpopular with the German General Staff) and would be glad to pull out of it completely. The strategy of Britain (and France) last week, therefore, was to ignore German participation in the Spanish Civil War and bring, within and without the League, all possible pressure on Italy...
...bellicose Premier, ignoring Japan's voters, remained in office (TIME, May 10). But he had reckoned without the political parties who, after much Japanese skirmishing, got round this week to passing a motion of no-confidence in the Hayashi Government. This finally convinced the Premier that he was unpopular. He called a final Cabinet meeting; sadly proceeded with his ministers to Emperor Hirohito, resigned...
...verdict of the Senate in 1868, sitting as a Court of Impeachment [on unpopular President Andrew Johnson], put a quietus on another heresy that had broken out periodically since 1787. It was now determined, for all time, that impeachment was a trial, not to settle a political argument, but to establish crime." Had Johnson's impeachment succeeded, says Author Hendrick, the Presidency "would have been so diminished, would have so become the sport of legislators, that the constitutional fabric would have been shaken almost beyond repair." The U. S. would have had a government comparable to England...
...General Flores da Cunha is apparently convinced, Getulio Vargas means to succeed himself again next year, the General may be able to start his civil war near home. President Vargas is most unpopular in Sao Paulo, which last week saw the first real chance in seven years to squeeze back into power through a brawl in Rio Grande. Strongly nationalist President Vargas is unpopular also in such States as Para and Amazonas, whose ambitious plans to import cheap Japanese labor for their rubber plantations the President halted with his 1934 immigration law. Under its terms, immigration from any nation...
...been, they declared, the "best," the "frankest," the "most helpful," the "most important" conference they had ever had with the President, and they were bursting with the reason: this time they had talked back to Franklin Roosevelt, had spoken their minds with heat and firmness against the prospect of unpopular new taxes, for real economy (see p. 16). It was not yet mutiny, but it was the strongest evidence to date of the growing restlessness which close observers have discerned in the New Deal officers' mess for weeks (TIME. April 19), indicating that the long subservience of, Legislative...