Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City's Representative John J. O'Connor into the chairmanship of potent Rules Committee. Brother of Basil O'Connor, Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner, Representative O'Connor is, because of his habit of sneering at his opponents, one of the most unpopular members of a supposedly popular house...
Bolivia's politics are run from La Paz, the world's highest capital (12,000 ft.) where the climate is always about the same as Norway's spring and the hot little Chaco war is very remote and unpopular. The Liberal Party runs the cities and opposes the war; the Genuine Republican Party holds the countrymen of the hot lowlands and wants war to the finish. Genuine Republicans made Invalid Daniel Salamanca President while the Liberal bosses were electing a man of their own vice president, a beet-nosed banker named José Luis Tejada Sorzano. Last...
...Totally marooned at Government House in Australia's "Garden Capital," Canberra, last week was the Duke of Gloucester. Reason: a flood which boiled around Government House for miles. Inconvenient, unpopular and sparsely populated, the seven-year-old "Garden Capital" has cost over $50,000,000. Dominion officials felt that His Majesty's third son should see it, barely got him into Government House before the flood burst...
...been a charmer, naturally eloquent, instinctively elegant, yet with plenty of brain power and force. His rise in the Chamber and through the cabinets of men now mostly forgotten was meteoric. In the year before the War he formed his first Cabinet and as Premier boldly forced through unpopular legislation lengthening the term of French military service. This gave la Patrie immeasurably better trained young men to shoulder her rifles and fire her 753 when the War broke. In those days M. Barthou was one of the first middle-aged statesmen to be hailed as "The Savior of France...
Tony and Brenda were happily married, though Brenda. a recent toast of the town, felt exiled in the kind of hearty country life to which Tony was wedded. When John Beaver, a beautiful specimen of the unpopular sponger, spent a weekend with them. Brenda amused herself by being nice to him. One thing led to another and soon Brenda found herself having a full-time affair with the not-too-enthusiastic Beaver, while innocent Tony moped for her at home. The sudden death of their little son brought Brenda into the open. She announced to the stunned Tony that...