Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of the Court read the accusation in detail to each prisoner. The accused was permitted to interrupt, deny any point, turn the reading into a conversation between judge and defendant. Counsels for the defense, most of them assigned by the court to take on the unpopular cases, stood by to press points of law favorable to their clients. Such time-consuming luxuries as character witnesses were barred. The cases were ticked off quickly. It took just 90 minutes to try and convict Suarez...
Death and Meat. In Escuintla, an unpopular political chief was killed. In the capital, 16 people were killed by Government tank fire when machine-gunning started in the meat market of U.S. Citizen Alfredo Denby...
Roared the Democrats: "THE ELEPHANT DOES FORGET" (its isolationist statements, the Hoover depression). Dewey is unpopular with his own party. Dewey is full of confused contradictions in his frantic effort to keep up with public opinion...
Trippe is ready for the fight. Ever since he realized that his proposed "chosen instrument" policy for U.S. aviation was unpopular, he has been girding Pan Am for this battle. A month ago he politely fired the first gun in a rate war when he announced that Pan Am would spend $52 million to expand Latin American services, and slash passenger fares from 8½? a mile to 3½? a mile (TIME...
There are some curious variants in cinematic taste. In India recent heavy favorites have been Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky, both all-Negro musicals. In the Southwest Pacific the favorite film is Casablanca. Cover Girl, with Rita Hayworth, is a current favorite in Normandy. Documentaries are generally unpopular, but soldiers everywhere want more newsreels, even old ones, because of the glimpses they give of home. Many soldiers prefer old newsreels to new pictures, and a good old film still draws bigger G.I. audiences than a bad new one. In Rome, where a Red Cross movie...