Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a reported labor shortage can be traced to local factors such as a big job in a small town or refusal to work for an unpopular contractor. The tightly organized labor unions vociferously deny a shortage, current or threatened, it being obviously to their immediate advantage to have contractors competing for labor. And the locals in the main are against indenturing apprentices. Wages for common labor in the building trades are already above 1929 levels, while skilled labor on the average is near the old highs. The rise has actually been greater than apparent because building mechanics in Depression...
...After that she hardly came home except for visits. On one of them she sat at old Sophie's deathbed. Her tormentor out of the way, Sisi never even attempted to take her place as the real Empress of Austria. By this time she was as unpopular with the Austrians as she was beloved in Hungary. At 36 Sisi was a grandmother. She celebrated by sneaking out to a masked ball, picking up a young man and beginning a clandestine but innocent correspondence. She developed new hobbies: a morbidly "humanitarian" interest in insanity; a kind of throne-room liberalism...
...Court hit bot tom in popular opinion, but soon commenced its steady rise to awesome heights. Until last week the nearest thing to a suggestion of Presidential tinkering was in 1912 when, attempting a comeback, Franklin Roosevelt's fifth cousin flirted publicly with the idea of recall of unpopular judges, actually plumped for re-call of judicial decisions in his Progressive platform. Wrote Felix Frankfurter in 1934: "Certainly neither the Presidency nor the Congress has better withstood the fluctuating winds of popular opinion than the Supreme Court. Despite intermittent popular movements against it, the Court is more securely lodged...
...historic session the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held to be null and void the Dominion of Canada's legislative measures for unemployment insurance, minimum wages, limitation of working hours and regulation of marketing: the "Canadian New Deal." These measures were originally introduced by Canada's unpopular Old Dealer Richard Bedford Bennett in his vain effort to escape disaster at the polls by hastily copying New Deal notions from Washington (TIME, June 29 et ante...
...plants will not be operated or that the machinery be moved elsewhere. The company is probably glad to see a delay in striking negotiations because it believes that the real-strikers among its employees are relatively few and that prolonging the shutdown will make the strike and the Union unpopular with most of the employees. The Union leaders would probably welcome an opportunity to start negotiations at once because that would strengthen their prestige among the employees. Each side is gambling that continuance of the shutdown will strengthen its hand by showing that most of the employees are with...