Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeing no chance for advancement, Vetterli left the FBI in 1938. Sight unseen, Salt Lake City's Mayor Ab Jenkins appointed him police chief in 1940. A strict disciplinarian and stickler for rules, Vetterli is unpopular with his policemen, who, like many Western police forces, are fairly casual about discipline...
...from being dull, grinding, and unpopular sessions, the toughening program has been so successful that men stay beyond the close of their required hour and often attend more than the compulsory quota of workouts...
...recent propaganda series, the programs were unpopular when boasting of America's might or ridiculing Axis leaders, popular when giving information or pointing to the difficulty of the tasks ahead...
...months ago when the General Maximum Price Regulation was announced. They got only a passing reference in the first documents describing "the big freeze." And when Congress shortly thereafter refused subsidy funds to RFC, most people shrugged their shoulders and thought it was just another swipe at newly unpopular Jesse Jones...
...Marshal Harris is in command of Britain's mass raids. Until last February he was chief of Britain's air mission to the U.S., and he made himself highly unpopular in Washington by saying that: 1) scattered and sporadic bombing is futile; 2) concentrated striking forces can obliterate concentrated targets. Now he is practicing what he then preached...