Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eggs and vegetables from his farm in Passyunk Township, three miles southwest of the city. Solid burghers, however, recognized him as the man who paid one-tenth of Philadelphia's real estate taxes, who had in 1814 subscribed to 95% of the U. S. Government's unpopular $5,000,000 war loan. Clergymen were painfully aware that he read the French rationalists, owned 18 ships bearing such names as Voltaire, Rousseau, Montesquieu, Helvetius. One morning in 1830, when he was 80 and half blind, he came in from the country with his eggs, was knocked down...
...which has been brought out by the reorganization is that the Council could never, in a college characterised by the indifference and individualism which are found in Cambridge, hope to have direct disciplinary control over individual students. Any honor system common in more collegiate institutions would be odious and unpopular here. The old constitution included powers designed to give Council members such powers, and it is proper that they should have been removed...
...perpetual surveillance of the underworld has resulted in exceedingly slim pickings from the labor and gambling rackets, which were expected to be gangsters' gold-mines after Repeal. Consequently there is no motive left for murder and violence other than private vengeance, and even this form of amusement has grown unpopular among Chicago's mobdom owing to the tireless efforts of police authorities...
...inflexible formula. In its early form the fixed trust offered a virtual guarantee that securities would be sold for less than their purchase price because the trust agreement usually provided that stock could be disposed of only after dividends had stopped. Meantime, general management trusts were so unpopular that their stocks frequently sold at 50% of their asset value, indicating that people were eager to take $1 for something worth $2 just to get it away from the bankers. By last week, with reports in from most major management trusts for 1935, it was possible to survey a record which...
...Linaker and Ricardo Cortez do their best to make a second rate murder picture. "the Mystery of Dr. Harrigan," take a mildly gruesome and gently thrilling tenor. One cannot, however, work up much of a lather over this murder of an unpopular M.D. in a private hospital...