Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eminent lawyer and a former U. S. Assistant Attorney General. However, his book will not be taken too seriously by many people who consider that he is now less respectable because he ran for New York County Surrogate on the American Labor Party ticket and because he has defended unpopular people in generally unpopular causes...
...Teachers' Union resolved that "in time when widespread suspicion and organized pressure threaten the independence of university scholars, every effort must be made to preserve the principles of academic freedom, and special effort should be made to avoid stigmatizing or punishing members of the faculty who profess independent or unpopular views...
...British politicians recognized Cripps's courage in going to bat for an unpopular but economically necessary budget. But there was no getting away from the fact that it represented a crisis in Labor Party affairs, as was promptly shown by the licking Labor took in the London County Council elections (see above). For years, Laborite leaders had appeased the workers' demands for higher wages by pointing out that the Socialist government was at least keeping prices low. Now there was bound to be trouble. Said Socialist M.P. Mark Hewitson of the powerful General and Municipal Workers' Union...
Aiken, prefacing his talk with the observation that Marx was "the most unpopular social scientist," said that his "liberalism" was at present dying of its own complacency and smugness. Common understanding does not lead to common appreciation, he stated...
Cover Up (United Artists) is a doubtful little melodrama with a doubtful moral thesis: murder is excusable when the victim is an unpopular curmudgeon. The film's makers avoid an out & out tussle with the Johnston Office by killing off the murderer, a kindly old doctor, before Insurance Investigator Dennis O'Keefe can catch up with him. But, preoccupied with Dennis' courtship of a suspect's daughter (Barbara Britton), they blithely overlook the fact that a local banker was an accessory to murder and that Sheriff William Bendix shut his eyes to the crime. The rather...