Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colony coops, now employing some 400 men, David Colony is president or vice president, visits each one daily when he is not out selling their product. He is unpopular with his bishop, dignified, 77-year-old Francis Marion Taitt, but says Rector Colony: "There is not a single member of my parish who does not have a job. That is more than a lot of my Main Line friends...
...cinema in Rome during her eighth month of pregnancy, and was publicly applauded. Doubtful it is if such a demonstration would now occur. The Countess is held by many Italians to be largely responsible for the Nazified laws that Italy has "imported" from Germany. One of these is the unpopular anti-Semitic law. The Cianos are firmly linked with the alliance with Germany, and the alliance is not dear to Italians...
...attempt to deprive even so unpopular a group as the American Nazis of their rights would be a denial of democracy's principles. ... Our best answer is to fight Nazi propaganda with counter-propaganda...
...cracks are well remembered, for although he is not disputatious as scientists go, he has an unusual record for getting into scientific controversies, usually on the unpopular side of a question. He has an even more unusual record of emerging from such controversies with 1) a crack that demolished his opponents and 2) agreement by scientific opinion that he was right from the beginning...
...announced that henceforth it will issue regular licenses permitting short-wavers to broadcast sponsored programs. Instead of cheering, the big short-wavers grumbled as they inspected the gift horse's mouth. Reason: they fear that sponsored programs would be unpopular abroad, that their friend the State Department would then sponsor a Government radio station, that a Government station might soon become a rival at home as well as abroad...