Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chain-drinks Turkish coffee, talks cheerfully, optimistically and incessantly. One of Greece's chess masters, he plays a brilliant, passionate, impatient game. Two years ago he spoke hardly a word of English ; last week he rattled off a fine-sounding sentence: "We shall be obliged to take unpopular measures for the simple reason that American aid cannot go on forever and we must become self-sufficient...
...Britons, from their press, often think the U S is made up of "jukeboxes, gangsters and glistening bathing beauties." A false image is being projected," wrote London Sunday Observer Correspondent Alastair Buchan, "of an America where liberals are hounded with bell, book and candle and where people who hold unpopular opinions are afraid to open their mouths...
Another imminent problem is the tax with the most popular name and the most unpopular results: the excess-profits tax. The Government in one way or another has to advance billions to industry to make up for the new capital that is dried up by a tax that falls on an efficient expandable business. Humphrey, like most businessmen, is violently opposed to E.P.T., and would-on principle-love to drop it when it expires June 30. But the New Deal era has given "excess profits" such a magic sound that Humphrey will have to make the real meaning of E.P.T...
...Carrol Newson, Associate Commissioner of Education in New York, said they are afraid of being labelled "pink" or "red" and, as a result, avoid not only communism, but all unpopular social or economic subjects...
...first Schuman cabinet, he devalued the franc over Sir Stafford Cripps's objections. Becoming Finance Minister again in 1951, he angered France (and helped topple the government of Rene Pleven) by introducing, and sticking to, an austerity budget plan. Commented Mayer: "A good Finance Minister is always unpopular." In debate he is austere and biting: admired, not adored. Foreign Policy: Within his own Radical Socialist Party, he opposed the position taken by Leaders Herriot and Daladier against the European Army. Is a close friend of Europe's No. 1 internationalist, Jean Monnet, who heads the six-nation Schuman...