Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election day Erie County's 179,000 citizens elected him by a bare majority of 303 votes, trailing his ticket. He did a good job as sheriff. He cleaned out graft in the dissolute county jail and made himself unpopular with local politicians, but misfortune lay in store...
...Lord Stanhope, the Cabinet's First Commissioner of Works, was understood to hint that His Majesty's Government think they may soon have to impose highly unpopular Army conscription when he guardedly told Their Lordships. "I am bound to admit that under present conditions of service the volunteer system is obviously in grave danger...
...practical matter, the rule has broken down in several instances. It is hard for House officials and janitors to muster any enthusiasm for a regulation which the majority regard only with the greatest contempt. A rule, unpopular alike with administrators and students, certainly has no chance of enforcement...
...over again by getting around to Democracy, the crisis comes when "the people look to their state to give them more wages, higher standards of living. . . . And so the time comes when the state must make fake money. First it is called 'inflation.' Then, because that is unpopular, 'devaluation.' Now they are calling it 'dilution.' But it is all the same thing -fake money. Thus you have insecurity. Savings become illusory. Since nature is aristocratic, the valuable part of the population is reduced to the level of misery...
Ohio. When Franklin Roosevelt stumped Ohio, he said not a word for his supposed Democratic liability, Governor Martin Luther Davey. Polls which gave the State to Roosevelt unanimously indicated that, after many a run-in with the New Deal, aggressive, unpopular Governor Davey was about to be returned to the private life of a tree surgeon by Republican John W. Bricker, State Attorney General. Apparently they were unanimously wrong...