Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canadian wiseacres last week guessed the general election would come the first or second Monday in October. Canada's new Novelist-Governor General, John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir, is to land in Quebec Oct. 10. Getting out Sept. 12 are the unpopular Earl of Bessborough and his Countess. To preserve Empire amenities, Canadian women's organizations are taking up a collection to present Lady Bessborough on her departure with a vase 16 inches high made by Canadian goldsmiths from Canadian gold...
...Dead Man." Hot after huge, unpopular Associated Gas & Electric Co., whose Warren, Pa. representative admitted last fortnight that he had sent Congressmen hundreds of unauthorized telegrams against the Public Utility Bill's "death sentence" (TIME. July 29), the Black committee summoned telegraph and utility men from York, Pa. Testimony was offered that an A. G. & E. subsidiary had prepared some 2,000 anti-"death sentence" telegrams, filed them in batches of 100 or more...
...last week: "I hope this will lead Premier Bennett to see what he can expect as a result of refusing the dissolution of Parliament we have asked and clinging to office to the very last minute!'' Of caustic Mr. King and the ever-gentlemanly but reserved and unpopular Premier is told this tale...
...dividends?" Beach: "Yes." Senator Gibson: "And in the final analysis that money was paid by the consumers?" Beach: "The operating companies are the source of income." Senator Gibson: "And the source from whence their income comes is the consumer? " Beach: "Well, that's true." If Associated Gas was unpopular before last week's investigation, afterward other utility men could have wrung its neck. Said Lobbyist Gadsden for the Committee of Public Utility Executives: "It is, to say the least, unfortunate that representatives of any company should so depart from the standards set by the utility industry in general...
...Warmed somewhat to glacial Sir John Simon, long unpopular when Foreign Secretary, as his first important act in his new job of Home Secretary proved to be a reprieve for the popular "Rats' Murderer," George Percy Stoner (TIME, April 22; June...