Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigorous anti-war crusader himself, Columnist Pegler had stumbled on the work of one of the bitterest and most effective enemies of war in France. Jean Galtier-Boissière founded Crapouillot (name of a small trench cannon) in 1915, at first distributed it only to his fellow soldiers. After the War he branched out, took a partner, began to make journalistic history with a brand of fearless muckraking which caused French citizens' eyes to pop, French officials' hair to rise. With stark facts and photographs Crapouillot took out such disagreeable subjects as the origins and secret causes...
...litigation of the New Deal is in a sorry tangle. Attorney General Cummings is a loyalist-a very great Democrat, a greater friend, and a man with an unblemished record. But ... his stanchest friend could never contend that he organized, prepared and manned the Department of Justice for the bitterest battle of litigation which ever confronted any Administration...
...would never sanction this country indulging in a blockade of that kind unless assured of the sympathetic support at least of those three great neutral countries. It would surely be the bitterest and cruelest irony of history if the League, in attempting to enforce peace in some localized area, only succeeded in setting fire to the world, starting a war which might run from Pole to Pole...
...sanity, the League of Nation's sanctions will go into effect on November 18. Assuming Mussolini remains mentally in status quo, and refuses to capitulate until the actual end is in sight, the Italian people are in for as uncomfortable a few months as one could wish his bitterest enemy...
When St. Louis tardily organized a school savings system in 1929, one of its bitterest opponents was Assistant Super intendent Henry Joseph Gerling, who thought school savings should be insured. The savings, uninsured, were parceled out among twelve St. Louis banks. Presently Dr. Gerling became Superintendent. A small, perpetually busy man who moves from school to school at a nervous trot and waggles his grey Vandyke in short, sharp jerks, Superintendent Gerling saw his fear come true early in 1933. Two of the smaller State banks in St. Louis failed, tying up $96,000 in school deposits. Promptly Dr. Gerling...