Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hall of Mirrors of the Presidential Palace by his big-nosed political opponent, Supreme Court Chief Justice Juan Federico Edelman. President and Chief Justice exchanged a big hug. In his speech to Congress, President Gómez put the best possible face on Cuba's most unpopular fact, its economic dependence on the U. S. "In our friendly commercial relations," said he, "we must give preference to those nations with whom we have products to exchange in this hemisphere and especially to our great consumer, the North American Union [the U. S.], which merits our gratitude in so many...
Famed as a disciplinarian, he took the unpopular post-War job of British High Commissioner to Egypt (1919-25). The thankless business of suppressing Egyptian riots is supposed to have lost him an earldom. A squarejawed, heavyset, vigorous man, he specialized in English and Spanish literature and in his collection of birds, live and dead. For special pets he had a war-horse called Hindenburg and a marabou stork...
Responsible for most physical pain and damage have been the four famed Dusek brothers, who have meticulously adhered to their slogan, "Never a Dull Bout with a Dusek." Last week in Manhattan the four Duseks appeared on the same card, made themselves thoroughly unpopular by savagely thumping & kicking their way to victories in three out of four matches. Only 215-lb. Emil, lightest and mildest of the four, was unable...
Year ago, after Republican Governor Harold G. Hoffman took office, a sales tax was imposed to provide relief revenues. Within a few months it grew so unpopular that it was repealed. The New Jersey Legislature which met last January could not agree on another form of relief taxation. So last week, after every cent of State money not legally tied up for other uses had been spent, the Legislature decided to knock off for six days...
...when the Spanish War started, drew him into a dreary camp in Georgia. His sufferings there under army inefficiency started him thinking about politics, economics, sent him back to teaching with a thirst for modern facts. After posts at Bryn Mawr, Columbia. Nebraska. Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, journalism for the Unpopular Review and The New Republic, he was made Director of Manhattan's New School for Social Research in 1923, is there still...