Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Editor Silverman left the New York Morning Telegraph because he would not comply with his boss's wishes about a theatrical review. Variety's first field was the vaudeville and burlesque profession. From the start its impertinence made good friends and bad enemies. Longest and bitterest struggle the sheet had was with the late Edward Franklin Albee, from whose theatres and booking offices Variety reporters were barred because the weekly rushed to the defense of wronged Thespians on every possible occasion...
Mail Order. Rumored and vigorously denied last week: that Sears, Roebuck & Co. will merge with its biggest and bitterest competitor, Montgomery Ward & Co. To tales that Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood and Montgomery Ward's George Bain Everitt have been engaged in conferences, General Wood stated: "We had luncheon together several times and have discussed certain things of mutual interest, hut if there is any trend toward consolidation I do not know about it." Wall Street cynics read the denial, remarked that a problem of mutual interest must be how to get mail order shares back...
...Banion. In 1924 O'Banion was shot down in his florist shop. A few months later Torrio was mangled with slugs, fled to Europe. It was then that Capone took charge, pushed his program of expansion; and then that "Bugs" Moran, supposed successor to O'Banion, became his bitterest gangland enemy...
...Chicago Tribune and anti-Italian Austrians of fears that an Austro-Italian alliance is brewing, Chancellor Schober, on his way back to Vienna, crossed the tip of Jugoslavia and was received at Ratkersburg by a pompous representative of Dictator-King Alexander, whose people are avowedly the bitterest enemies of Italians...
...other Hatry defendants received sentences of from three to seven years. The bitterest blow to Swindler Hatry and his friends-that he has friends is shown by the fact that a number of them subscribed $95,000 to pay for his defense-was the fact that the first two years of the Hatry sentence must be spent at hard labor. The first two weeks of his sentence he must sleep on bare boards. For 28 days the man whose champagne suppers were the talk of Mayfair must crush rocks on the stonepile. After that he will be given the slightly...