Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scores of charges can be leveled at the Monroe Doctrine by a Latin American," says Dr. Quintanilla. He cites five of them. It is: 1) unilateral; 2) inefficient; 3) perverted; 4) unpopular; 5) outmoded. "The Monroe Doctrine, with its imperialistic connotations, is loaded with the kind of explosive that endangers the Pan-American structure. . . . The moment Monroe's distorted shadow enters a Pan-American Conference, the Good Neighbors disband. The silence made around the Monroe Doctrine at the historical meeting at Rio [in January 1942] is more eloquent than any indictment ever uttered against...
...still exploded at the sight of a Senator. His OPA had become a red flag to bureaucracy-haters, yet he goaded his critics with the warning of "more red tape" to come. When he took the price control job, he predicted that he would become the most unpopular man in the U.S.-and often it seemed that he had done his best to make his prediction look good...
...told a press conference the claim that the big Army would seriously harm the domestic economy would be unpopular in the midst of a very serious...
...Among his closest henchmen, Franklin Roosevelt was forced to concede another casualty: there were reports that unpopular Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. would be replaced, as tax spokesman, by Economic Czar James F. Byrnes...
...Deal survive was smooth, shrewd Jimmy Byrnes, the best politician it has outside the President. As economic czar, Jimmy Byrnes's job was to iron out the bickerings in the war administration, to clean out the obvious trouble spots, to smooth the path for the difficult and unpopular steps that any war administration must take...