Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rider to the AAAmendments (TIME, Sept. 9). But he also knew that the Act was a natural evolution of their crop restriction program, that whatever indignation could be stirred up against it would fall on their heads. By last week Republican efforts to hang responsibility for the unpopular Act on President Roosevelt had become so vehement that New Dealers felt obliged to have Democratic Press-agent Charles Michelson observe in his weekly propaganda letter: "It just happens that the day the potato program was tacked on the AAAmendments, Despot Roosevelt was not despoting. . . . Fortunately, or unfortunately, the President cannot veto...
Still almost as unpopular as Herbert Hoover, Dominion Premier Richard Bedford Bennett submitted last week to the ultimate indignity in Canada's election campaign (TIME, Aug. 19). His Conservative campaign managers convinced him that the huge posters everywhere reading VOTE BENNETT! are such a liability to the Party that they were ordered changed to VOTE CONSERVATIVE...
...menacingly about the Senate chamber. In 1933 he got his 30-hour-week bill passed by the Senate amid a great spatter of headlines. Then came NRA which also promised short hours, and Senator Black adroitly sluiced his 30-hour-week following in behind it. Until NRA proved unpopular, he claimed, with some justice, that he was responsible for the passage of the National Recovery...
Berlin, by hailing Germany's No. 1 Jew-baiter as a hero last week (see above), forced into prominence the deep, half-hidden split between popular Nazi demagogs and Adolf Hitler's unpopular Big Business friends whose key man is Reichsbank President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Minister of Economics and charged by the Realmleader with finding money for everything from poor relief to export subsidies and pocket battleships...
...distinction of bespectacled, imperturbable John Jay ("Jack") Price is that he is a news photographer who can also write English. Author (News Photography), longtime chief cameraman for the late New York World and now a Manhattan free lance, Jack Price has long campaigned for the improvement of his unpopular trade by supplying all reporters with cameras to take their own pictures. This procedure would effectively abolish Jack Price's vocation, except for the fact that reporters stubbornly dis dain so practical an accomplishment as photography. Jack Price's trade, how ever, is now further than ever from extinction...