Word: unpopular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These questions face the Congress as well as the State Department. As usual, however, the Department carries the unpopular load of responsibility on its none-too-sturdy shoulders. As George Marshall faced doubting and irate Congressmen last week he might have reflected that he was not the first Secretary of State to be where he found himself. Henry Adams had noted...
Since unions will be liable to suit for contract violation, wildcat strikes will become unpopular. Jurisdictional strikes and boycotts will be sharply curtailed by the NLRB's authority to get injunctions...
...could also return some of its ocean trade to foreign bottoms, and pay for the service in dollars. Tariffs could be lowered and U.S. businessmen could send capital abroad in the form of foreign investments. But lower tariffs, loans and shipping in. foreign bottoms are all politically unpopular (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In the absence of any overall program, most economists guess that the dollar crisis will arrive by year's end and the present boom in U.S. foreign trade may melt away overnight...
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...veteran who will almost certainly play his role again is tangle-haired Hans Zwink-Oberammergau's twinkling-eyed Judas. He is also Oberammergau's most unpopular man. Villagers resent Zwink's sense of humor and his philosophical detachment, gossip that he is touched in the head. But his most objectionable symptom seems to be his longtime anti-Naziism. When Hitler took over Germany in 1934 Zwink retired from village life and kept to his house, painting bad portraits and canvases of church interiors. A calendar portrait of Franklin Roosevelt hung on his wall throughout...