Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even acknowledge them. By the time the authorities woke to the fact that trouble was brewing, it was too late. They ordered the Fleet to sea; it stayed where it was. Less mutineers than strikers, the sailors respectfully but firmly took over their ships, put the most unpopular officers ashore. Followed some delicate negotiations between the Admiralty and the sailors' delegates. Finally an agreement was reached. But the promised reforms had to go through Parliament, and the suspicious sailors, irked by the delay, mutinied again. This time there was bloodshed. Thoroughly alarmed, the Government rushed the changes into legal...
...make himself his own scapegoat. He is the engineer of no political steam roller but an Independent. During 1935 the French Chamber, in which there is no solid majority, has been on the point of overthrowing him for one reason or another nearly every week, not because he is unpopular but in the ordinary workings of French politics in which Premier after Premier is ground exceedingly small. Last week there were beyond question in the Chamber more than enough Leaguo-philes, Devaluationists, Socialists, Communists and people-who-simply-do-not- like-Benito Mussolini to assure the Cabinet's overthrow...
...rented, extortionate London hatters charged luckless lords who had to buy cocked hats $60 each. Since popular temper was rising sharply against forcing the taxpayers of Surrey to spend $50,000 in order that a peer charged with felony may receive, at most, a wrist-slapping sentence, attorneys for unpopular Lord de Clifford announced that he "cannot" waive his mandatory right to be tried by the House of Lords. As strongly as possible they hinted that this handsome young man, an ardent British Fascist, would much rather be tried in democratic Old Bailey where a subject convicted of manslaughter...
...reference to LaGuardia's unpopular 2% city sales...
...slight concession as restoration of the Constitution of 1923. They learned this from none other than British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. Said he in a London Guildhall speech: "Any revival of the 1923 Constitution is inadvisable since that Constitution is unworkable and the 1930 Constitution is universally unpopular." At this the Wafd Executive Committee met last week and decided to stage mass riots...