Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intellectual awkward squad.") To left-wing Labor he is the "most dangerous" of Conservatives. (He, more than any other one man broke the general strike in San Francisco last summer.) To followers of Senator Hiram Johnson he is the "most effective" Progressive. Most loyal of friends, he is the bitterest, most remorseless of enemies. Thirty years ago he burst upon San Francisco as "Windy Jack," a noisy brilliant, picturesque young hoodlum reporter with the vocabulary and manners of his teamster days in Arizona. Little about his behavior suggested that he was born of gentlefolk in New York 49 years...
...later days were built some of the first U. S. locomotives. There Inventor John Holland built a submarine in 1875. There today are the biggest silk mills in the U. S. And around those mills on the unsavory banks of the Passaic have been waged some of the bitterest and bloodiest strikes in U. S. history...
...triumphant progress ending in a rousing visit with King Alexander of Jugoslavia who was destined to die with him last week. He had advanced an Eastern Locarno Pact which would throw a "ring of steel" around Germany, and he even got France on trading terms with King Alexander's bitterest enemy Benito Mussolini...
Three days later Education Minister Bernhard Rust, who had been rumored about to dissolve all the Fatherland's student fraternities, abruptly dismissed Dr. Staebel, thus cracking down on their bitterest foe. But a spokesman for Minister Rust announced that all student activities would be brought more closely under the Ministry of Education's control. In a circular sent out by the Ministry of Education schools and universities were warned last week that every German instructor must be "an exponent of National Socialist [Nazi] ideology...
...stonily through a great squirting of spleen at the Prime Minister by an old friend who left the Labor Party to follow Scot MacDonald but is now the bitterest foe of his National Government. Fired to fury by the repeal of the land tax which he as Chancellor of the Exchequer riveted on England's great hereditary landlords, self-made and landless Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw sneered at the Prime Minister: "Once he gave me assurance in a tearful voice that the land tax would be maintained. That was at the time he was begging me not to resign...