Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making a deliberate policy by the President to overwhelm the Supreme Court with a mass of New Deal legislation of doubtful Constitutionality. If the Supreme Court is forced to throw most of it out next year on the eve of a Presidential campaign in a series of unpopular decisions, President Roosevelt will presumably go to the country and say in effect: "We tried to do things to help you but the Supreme Court wouldn't let us. Therefore let us have a Constitutional Amendment which will limit the Supreme Court's power to wreck the country...
...Because Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was lukewarm, Senator Robinson stepped in, took on the unpopular task of championing the World Court for Franklin Roosevelt. Father Coughlin, Huey Long and William Randolph Hearst beat the kettledrums against the Court. Senator Robinson fought valiantly but vainly (TIME, Feb. 11). Grim and glum, he received from Franklin Roosevelt (who laughed off the misadventure) a note thanking him for his "very able and very honorable fight...
...only Laborites and Liberals but also Conservative henchmen of the Prime Minister broke away to heap their wrath at popular Stanley Baldwin's latest bumble upon unpopular Ramsay MacDonald's luckless son Malcolm. Stormed Conservative M.P. Sir Arnold Wilson: "Was His Majesty's pleasure on this subject ascertained...
...chapters become a cumulative catalog of miseries as he writes of the civil war, when Reds fought Whites on a great fluctuating battle-line that stretched from the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea, while famine and typhus were triumphing behind the lines. Unpopular though the Bolsheviks undoubtedly were in many sections, they could always count on more support among the common people than the Whites, who were everywhere identified with a return of the monarchy. "The alternative to Bolshevism, had it failed to survive the ordeal of civil war, would not have been...
...honor of the Silver Jubilee, more flags than usual were attached to the white buildings and the grandstand above the lake. All that was missing was the parade of scarlet-coated escorts, with silver-plated helmets, breastplates and plumes, who usually accompany the Governor General in his official carriage. Unpopular Lord Bessborough last week sent word that he was indisposed. Lady Bessborough went in his place, slipped quietly into the vice-regal box until time for the main race, when she scuttled off to the judges' stand...