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Word: unpopular (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Macmillan, Reith & Duncan. Observers have expected for some weeks that Neville Chamberlain would gradually make a series of Cabinet changes and last week he followed up his unpopular ousting of Go-getter Hore-Belisha by a popular ousting of Lord Macmillan from the post of Minister of Information of which he has made such a mess (TIME, Sept. 18). To take over the Ministry of Information the Prime Minister appointed Sir John Reith, "The Man Who Made The British Broad casting Corp." and whose deep voice the world heard introducing the abdication broadcast of Edward VIII. A strict moralist, nonsmoker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tommy's Friend Out | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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