Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...difficult job with the light hand and sure footwork that marked earlier Washington assignments, e.g., as Charlie Wilson's public relations counselor and as presidential administrative assistant. Currently Seaton's touchy job is to reverse some McKay water and power decisions that proved to be vastly unpopular in the Far West, e.g., to shift emphasis from McKay's theories of all-out help for quick, private-power development to a more moderate Seaton program of maximum use of each river valley, and possibly increased federal development. Along these lines, Fred Seaton may yet reopen the celebrated Hell...
Letting Down. General Rojas first took power in 1953, when he ousted an unpopular Conservative President. That act put a stop to backlands guerrilla fighting by the opposition Liberals and earned Colombia's gratitude. But his soldiers were not content to be the force supporting a mainly civilian regime. Instead, generals and colonels became Cabinet ministers and governors; sergeants became village mayors. The politicos understandably balked; the rural fighting resumed (TIME, Dec. 31). Rojas cracked down, banning meetings and closing newspapers...
...that American aid will be needed to bail the English and French out of this mess. The money will come from the usual place -the pocket of the American taxpayer. So now we Americans are unpopular over there. Well, O.K., old buddies, if you don't like our peaches, quit shaking our tree...
...forgo this year's interest on their postwar loans to Britain ($81.6 million to the U.S., $22.2 million to Canada), and had been informed by the U.S. Treasury that Congress would almost certainly consent. In Britain's current anti-American mood this was a humiliating and unpopular move, but it was one that would keep a precious $104 million available for the defense of the pound...
...factories, as party control has slipped, so has production. Unpopular bosses have been roughly ridden out of town in wheelbarrows, and there have been some near lynchings. The mood of the country has not been improved by the 36,000 prisoners released from U.B. prisons and the 16,000 Poles repatriated from Soviet slave-labor camps, each with a bitter story of Soviet brutality. To these must be added the serious preachments of the score of Polish correspondents who were in Budapest during the Soviet siege and, unable to publish their stories in their own newspapers for fear of offending...