Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social background, will be advanced in his favor?and against them will be set the suspicion that he has all the cautious conservatism of the ruling rich. He will be called a strong man who fights battles for the plain people and a weak man who never took the unpopular side to his own cost. He will be damned for being too Wet and damned for being...
...What I'm going to suggest will be received probably with an unpopular vote ? and that is an issue of Federal bonds for necessary public works and buildings. . . . The bonds can be offered by the Government direct to the people with the same patriotic appeal that was put behind the Liberty bonds. . . . They will pull out the hoarded money in sugar bowls, between the mattresses and in safe deposit boxes. . . . If it is all right to put the credit of the Government behind business, let the credit of the Government be used to keep the wolf of hunger from...
Thoroughly unpopular with pioneer companies are Motorman Errett Lobban Cord's Century Air Lines and Century Pacific Air Lines. Two months ago Century Pacific turned its face east from Los Angeles, prepared to parallel American Airways' route to El Paso. As operator for more than a year of this southern transcontinental link, American Airways had bought it and the pioneer rights from Standard Air Lines, invested large sums in radio, beacons, emergency landing fields, weather reporting services...
...ambitious bridge match ever held. Manhattan card sharps could recall no card contest of any kind quite like it. Though bridge is a four-handed game, this match will be essentially between Sidney S. Lenz, long-recognized bridge authority and Ely Culbertson, young, brilliant, individualistic and-to conservatives-extremely unpopular contract expert. The match was arranged after months of acrimonious wrangling, conducted with due regard to the publicity value of a grudge fight, but also representing a basic disagreement as to how contract hands should...
...games are unreasonably expensive, often meaningless, frequently unpopular. There have been more of them than ever this season. With more traditions than most such contests, N. Y. U. i). Georgia last week drew 65,000 spectators, ended much the same way as last year's game and by the same score (7 to 6) after Mott had run back the second-half kickoff for a touchdown and after Vernon ("Catfish") Smith had place-kicked the winning point and made the tackle, on fourth down with a few minutes to play, stopping N. Y. U.'s Bill Abee...