Word: unpopular
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Edward Bennett Williams should have a good book in him about his spectacular career of defending some of the most violently unpopular of public figures. At 42, Williams has made upwards of $150,000 a year for standing between an aroused society and the likes of Jimmy Hoffa and Frank Costello. In times past, Williams has taken on various branches of the U.S. Government in behalf of Senator Joseph McCarthy, David Beck, Bernard Goldfine, allegedly Communist Hollywood writers and Confidential Magazine. But Williams has chosen instead to devote his first book to fervent advocacy of the cause that, he says...
...Tories' Industrial Charter. Macmillan's most important proposal was for a National Incomes Commission ("Nicky") to supplement the government's new National Economic Development Council ("Neddy"). Jointly, these bodies, whose actual authority is undefined, would act as anti-inflation watchdogs, try to continue the unpopular "pay pause" by seeking to tie wages to productivity. From the glum rows of Tory M.P.s came hardly a cheer as their leader concluded: "We intend to carry on and complete our work...
...stressed the unpopular "austerity program" of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd, which imposed a "deflationary policy of tight money and high interest" on Great Britain...
Delphic Utterance. The most important head to roll was that of Selwyn Lloyd, who as Chancellor of the Exchequer has administered the government's vastly unpopular, anti-inflationary "pay pause," designed to hold down wages and prices. When he was bluntly informed of his dismissal after five years as a loyal Macmillan ally, Lloyd acidly wrote the Prime Minister: "I realize the policies with which I've been associated have been unpopular. On the other hand, I believe they have been right ... I know you are well aware that the growth of public expenditure should not outstrip...
...slash state welfare spending, possibly by as much as 35%. to get by until the legislature meets in January. Welfare costs absorb one-fifth of the general fund, have been running some $4,000,000 a month above their allotment. Kerner wryly concedes that this cut maybe "politically unpopular." "Indefensible." It is indeed. "To single out public aid as the goat in the state's financial crisis is indefensible," cried Raymond Hilliard. Cook County public aid director. "The cuts hurt the people who have the least." Even Kerner's political sponsor, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley...