Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three factors have made private power companies unpopular with a Senate majority: 1) their extensive anonymous propaganda against Government operation, as revealed by the Federal Trade Commission (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928, et seq.); 2) their stubborn opposition to regulation by the Federal Power Commission (TIME, March 10); 3) the flagrant lobbying against Government operation and in favor of the American Cyanamid bid by the Tennessee River Improvement Association and its onetime head. Claudius Hart Huston, now Republican National Committee Chairman (TIME, March 31). Last week wrote Mark Sullivan, veteran Washington observer: "What it [the Senate's bill] symbolizes...
...mail them to South America before the release date, but were absolutely forbidden to mail to the U. S. The Ford method was imported in Czechoslovakia, high wages and all, by Thomas Bat'a (TIME. Oct. 8, 1928). He is now the undisputed shoe tycoon of Europe, but unpopular. Socialist sheets charge that he pays his men double, then exacts triple and quadruple work from them. Germans believe in a modified kind of Fordization called "rationalization." A rationalizer gives his men better tools and machinery, drives them harder, but does not pay higher wages unless forced...
...subjects' lives Mr. Gandhi saved by dramatically withdrawing the seven-day ultimatum he had sent to the Viceroy, Lord Reading, demanding independence for India within that time. Mr. Gandhi chose to rebuke Indians for what he called their folly and breakdown of discipline, canceled his whole movement, became temporarily unpopular and, as Baron Lloyd says: "Then we put him in jail. You know the rest...
...popular with the U. S. colony in Berlin as his immediate predecessor was unpopular is Frederic Moseley Sackett, the new U. S. Ambassador* (TIME...
...Philip Perkins, onetime (1928) British amateur golf champion, who lights one cigaret from another when playing, calls his caddy ''laddy" and was well liked by his U. S. opponents in the Walker Cup matches of 1928 but unpopular with his teammates because of his alleged conceit: the Bermuda amateur championship at the Riddell's Bay Club...