Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument that by this new system outsiders can more easily be excluded may be logical enough, but certainly in this case, the lure is not worth the game. The question of financial advantage, however, is much more difficult to oppose; for the new feature, though of itself unpopular, adds new value to, and should increase the sales of, the participation books. But here again the same answer should, in the end, apply. It is all very well to encourage men to take up athletics; but unless the rate policy is based rather upon the budget of the individual student than...
...second only to Chairman Collier of Mississippi on the Ways & Means Committee. When Chairman Collier fell ill and withdrew to recover, Mr. Crisp stepped into the committee's acting chairmanship at a most difficult time. Taxes had to be raised to balance the Budget. Upon him fell the unpopular responsibility of drafting a billion-dollar revenue bill and pushing it through a balky House. He voted for: Declaration of War (1917), the 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Tax Reduction (1924, 1927), Restrictive Immigration (1924), Soldier Bonus (1924), Reapportionment (1929), Farm Board (1929), Bonus loans (1931), "Lame Duck" Amendment...
Eleutherios Venizelos, the foxy statesman who upset the Greek Royal House and whose first name means "Liberty," was back in the Cabinet saddle at Athens last week. Proverbially fickle, his countrymen seemed not displeased although only a month ago he described himself to the Greek Parliament as so unpopular that "two editors have actually gone so far as to advocate my murder and appeal for someone to carry it out" (TIME...
...members of the Inquiry already number many more who have never been connected with the Liberal Club. Furthermore, it is the intention of the organizers to keep the two entirely separate. The Liberal Club exists to champion the civic virtues of free speech and academic freedom, to esponse unpopular causes, and to dramatize occasional controversial issues as they arise. The Inquiry, however, is being formed to investigate the political and economic conditions which call for change, to seek understanding rather than action, to discuss rather than demonstrate. It is true that there will be some resemblance in the program...
...William Gregory of Ceylon; in Belfast. An able playwright (Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Gods & Fighting Men, Saints & Wonders), she sponsored the "Celtic Renaissance" with George Moore, William Butler Yeats, Edward Martyn. Creating an Irish National Theatre out of Abbey Theatre, she aroused a storm of protest with her productions. So unpopular was John Millington Synge's Playboy of the Western World that Lady Gregory's young nephews had to fetch burly athletes from Trinity College to quell the rioting...