Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, lean, smartly dressed, wearing his hat rakishly on the back of his head, solemn and almost macabre in appearance, Colonel Beck is probably the most unpopular of big Polish politicians. But political unpopularity matters little in Poland. One Pole out of five is illiterate. Communications are comparatively undeveloped, public opinion slow to form. The peasantry in many parts of the country spend most of their time and interest on trying to get enough to eat to keep alive...
...Hicks emphasized the importance of the work done by Morris in the Social Democratic Federation. Adopting an unpopular cause, he influenced many of his contemporaries although he won few disciples. Throughout his books there is strong practical middle class streak which keeps him from becoming a typical radical utopian and makes his doctrine a much more reasonable prediction of what has happened than Bellamy or his other contemporaries...
...Naziism is unpopular in South America, although the Nazis are propagandizing hard. Dr. Goebbels' paper Der Angriff recognized Bishop Ryan and Father Sheehy as adversaries, called them "paid propagandists" of President Roosevelt. The two planned the trip themselves and represented nobody but themselves. They recommended strongly, however, that U. S. press and radio services to South America be improved. The Nazis give the South American press a free news service in Spanish and Portuguese, which misrepresents U. S. happenings, and Nazi broadcasts consistently drown out U. S. programs. As Father Sheehy discovered after giving six NBC and CBS broadcasts...
Only mildly sensational were other Cabinet changes: Sir Thomas Inskip took over the relatively unimportant post of Dominions Secretary, which had been filled by Malcolm MacDonald along with his Colonial Secretaryship; unpopular William Shepherd Morrison, a misfit as Minister of Agriculture, was transferred to the post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. A gentleman farmer, Major Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith was given...
...Motto: Defense." Clearly Mr. Chamberlain had swapped the unpopular nag of appeasement for the glossy war-horse of rearmament, a wise move in view of the fact that 1939 is almost certainly a General Election year...