Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year ago exactly Herr Bruning came to power comparatively unknown (TIME, April 7, 1930) except as a protege of old Paul von Hindenburg. Last week he stood at the German zenith. He had just put through an unpopular budget against hot opposition, ahead of time. He had forced the niggling Reichstag to dissolve until October. And he had fashioned a sharp spit on which to cook the goose of Adolf Hitler, "the pocket Mussolini...
...Nice, Italians are most unpopular. Mrs. Nixon-Nirdlinger said that her husband flew at her throat because he thought she had an Italian lover. She said she had not. Her children's Swedish nurse corro- borated this...
...want him to be a minister. Myrtle married her second choice. When she died in childbirth of her first baby, Bruce found they still loved each other, realized too late he might have saved her for himself. Too much a zealot for his easy-going townspeople, Bruce was soon unpopular, obviously doomed to failure. Besides, the town was too small for three churches, would never have had the third if it had not been for old John Durken. In trying to convert the only educated man in Midland, a blind man, an intelligent agnostic. Bruce's simple faith was shaken...
Because he once saw a bum beaten up by a cop Jimmie had joined the I. W. W.; but his enthusiasm waned, he had never been active. Then the War started, wages boomed, the Wobblies started strikes in every mill they could. But it was an unpopular time to strike; soon the Wobblies were made to realize it. Bodies were found of men who had "committed suicide;" homes were wrecked, men beaten up by night-riders. Jimmie did not advertise his I. W. W. membership but it was known. By luck he escaped, but his spirit was broken; when...
...Pennsylvania athletic system has been for some years in need of revision. The university had fallen behind her sister colleges in the development of intramural athletics, Some highly paid coaches were unpopular. The necessity for a more stringent control of athletic endeavor was obvious. Consequently the wholesale dismissal of non-teaching coaches and the reorganization of the athletic department under university guidance, are necessary steps in the attempt to remove professionalism and over-emphasis...