Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Item 3. Provides genuine enforcement of prohibition where the people want it. Does not force an unpopular law upon states where the majority of the people oppose it. Lightens the task of the federal government, which does not have adequate machinery to enforce the prohibition laws...
...critics' eyes, was his attempt to deceive Senators as to Eyanson's identity and connections. The moral appearance of the situation was worse than the basic facts. It was never proved that Eyanson's presence obtained any undue advantages for the Connecticut Manufacturers Association. He is unpopular in the Senate. On first entering that body he made a bad start by delivering a maiden speech, introducing himself, which struck many a listener as highly egotistical. He addresses the Senate in the same professorial manner he used toward his students at Yale. Senators resent being lectured and most...