Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...widest amnesty granted in Germany since the Revolution of 1918, more than 10,000 political jailbirds - mostly Communists and Fascists-were let out of the Fatherland's jails on Christmas Eve or earlier in the week. This liberal gesture, designed to win popularity for the Cabinet of essentially unpopular and aristocratic General Kurt von Schleicher, was completed in able Santa-Claus fashion by giving each jailbird enough money to pay his carfare home and buy a Christmas dinner. Prisoners arrested in summer were given a winter overcoat, mittens...
...approach to democratic Socialism in the world. Railroads, posts, telegraphs, belong to the State, public utilities are closely supervised. There is universal military training, though citizens only serve two weeks a year after their first two months' training (three months for the cavalry). Citizens can and frequently do veto unpopular laws passed by the Federal Assembly by direct referendum. Inherited wealth is heavily taxed in most cantons. The President has very limited powers, serves for one year only...
...policies of recent administrations, such as Mellon's failure to reduce bonded indebtedness as much as possible at a time when he was able to reduce taxes, have left the present administration with the necessity of cutting costs when fixed charges are higher than ever. While it is an unpopular theme to advance, it might safely be said that, despite waste, this country does not spend enough of its national income on government costs. Although such expenses as the department of commerce or appropriations for harbors or unnecessary veteran expenditures might well be cut, it would be very wrong...
...seats over their present membership. This startling increase was secured mostly at the expense of Republican Old Guardsmen who suffered defeat not only because they had been "ins" for many a long year but also because they were identified in the voters' mind as conservative supporters of the unpopular Hoover regime. Dean of the Senate in point of service (29 years) and chairman of its powerful Finance Committee is long, lanky, lugubrious Reed Smoot whom Utah voters summarily retired for Democrat Elbert D. Thomas professor of political sciences at the State University. The defeat of 70-year-old Senator...
...Aside from his own self-confidence Chairman Farley found plenty to encourage him in the signs of the times last week. In Wall Street, where his candidate was unpopular, betting odds favored Roosevelt's election 2½-to-1. All except the most biased Republican newshawks touring the country reported evidences of a strong anti-Hoover tide still running. Even so ardent a claimer as Robert Lucas, ''brains" of the G. O. P. headquarters at Chicago, last week reported to President Hoover that only 270 electoral votes-a majority of four-were in sight for his reelection...