Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During most of his tour as CNO he had been an unpopular figure-a man his superiors considered to be "safe" and whom Navy extremists considered a puppet. When he testified before the House Armed Services Committee (TIME, Oct. 24) the picture was dramatically reversed. Admiral Denfeld had broken with his civilian superiors and lined himself up with the Navy's rebels...
...question of an overt act of violence; no revolution had actually been attempted. Had the activities of the eleven then constituted for the U.S. what Justice Holmes once characterized as "clear and present danger"? The defendants had merely plotted and planned, taught and preached. No matter how unpopular such activities, wasn't the law that forbade them an infringement of the First Amendment, an abridgment of the right of free speech...
...desired markets, in which case business investments would probably not be forthcoming, and the government would either have to back out, or carry the whole load itself. On the other hand, if Point Four succeeded too well, foreign goods might undercut American markets, and this, too, would be unpopular...
Paul Robeson knew what it was like to be popular-as an All America football star, as a concert artist who packed halls from coast to coast and made a fortune. In recent years, he had also learned what it meant to be unpopular-for being a party-liner and saying he preferred Russia to the U.S. Only last week a fellow Negro denounced him before a congressional committee as a would-be "black Stalin...
...Paul Robeson, a leftwinger herself, wrote a letter to the Springfield (Mass.) Union. It was a little slick, and studded with the tag ends of party phrases, but also in it were sentences which showed a little of what it meant to be famously unpopular in the U.S. Excerpts...