Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said that the President "is fighting the wrong battle on the wrong ground with the wrong weapons." Stewart Alsop, also of Lawrence's home paper, the Trib, said: "The betting is still that Congress will do to the popular Eisenhower what it never dared to do to the unpopular Truman-hack away at his whole foreign policy program with a meat ax all along the line." Fair-Dealing Doris Fleeson even started one column: "The President has lost his budget fight." Lawrence, who is still being bombarded with critical mail for his defense of the budget, disagreed. "The tide...
...region. The present administration's antipathy to the development of public power and to the plight of the farmer has certainly been detrimental to the Republican cause, as was especially evidenced in the power-conscious Northwest and in the Rocky Mountain farm states. Other factors are the Administration's unpopular hand-ling of Indian, reclamation, and forest affairs...
...want to become a baseball bum." Some Cincinnati fans suggested glumly that Hoak was a bum already-as a Dodger in 1954 and '55, he had looked poor next to Third Basemen Billy Cox and Jackie Robinson. Last year as a Cub, he was an unpopular and ineffectual replacement for handsome Ransom Jackson. He hit a piddling .215, set an embarrassing major-league record by striking out six times in a single game with the Giants...
...identifying with the working classes, it is a "mug's game." Nor do Amis and Co. propose to rally round their presumed benefactors, the Socialists, for whose triumph their predecessors fought so hard: "The Welfare State, indeed, is notoriously unpopular with intellectuals. It was all very well to press for higher working-class wages in the old days, but now-why, some of them are actually better off than we are ourselves...
...pass out $275 million at once in tax relief. Brushing aside fearful warnings of inflation, he said: "The answer to an over stretched economy is not to tax it but to relax it." He freed firms doing business abroad from all taxes on their overseas trading operations, removed some unpopular domestic levies, e.g., the 1955 "pots and pans" tax and the "Suez shilling" on gasoline, lowered others and granted graduated income-tax exemptions for children to help their parents pay higher school bills. But Thorneycroft's boldest move was to single out for relief the 300,000 Britons-mostly...