Word: bitterest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was very important news to wildlife conservationists, 2.000 of whom-trout fishermen, farmers, Camp Fire Girls, scientists, sentimentalists-gathered in Baltimore last week for the third North American Wildlife Conference, welcomed news of the Des Plaines Valley experiment. Mosquito control was the subject of the conference's bitterest debate. According to conservationists, drainage ditches of Eastern and Southern States, which end-to-end would belt the world almost 2½ times, have dried away vegetation, starved wildlife. Said Audubon Societies' William Vogt: "Intelligently conceived, expertly prosecuted, adequately maintained, and completely justified mosquito control is as rare...
Week previous to this pronouncement Kentuckian Alben Barkley had settled down to the bitterest of the many unpleasant tasks that he has had since he succeeded the late Joseph Taylor Robinson as Majority Leader of the Senate. Leader Barkley was paying for a serious mistake. Last August in the closing days of Congress, when every minute of the Senate's time was plotted out, he fell asleep at the switch. Senator King who was supposed to rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York...
...effort to liberalize the Supreme Court, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last year split the Democratic Party with the bitterest political fight of the century. That the fight was a blunder became apparent last summer when the President lost it. That it was also totally unnecessary became apparent last week when Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland called reporters into his office to show them a letter he had just sent the President. The letter: ". . . Being eligible for retirement under the Sumners Act ... I hereby retire from regular active service on the bench, this retirement to be effective . . . the 18th day of January...
...miles of track between Kansas City, Chicago, Pittsburgh and the Atlantic coast that have long made it a ranking U. S. road. But as 1937 expired it became evident that B. & O. would remember it not so much as an anniversary but as one of the bitterest years in the company's history. In 1936 the B. & 0. made $4,538,975. Last week, it declared not only that it faced a probable loss of $1,352,004 for 1937 but that it could not meet its payroll, maintain its present lines or meet maturing obligations without an immediate...
...immediately procured a restraining order from the State Supreme Court preserving the status quo until this week. Simultaneously Sheriff William J. Hamilton Jr., Mayor Wilson's bitterest political foe, ostentatiously mobilized 160 pudgy deputies "to enforce the orders of the courts." The Civil Service Commission in the meantime opened an investigation of Sam Wilson's action in ordering police to circulate 7,000 "Stop the Gas Steal" petitions, each headed by his signature. Snorted Civil Service Commission Chairman Thaddeus M. Daly: "There are three courses this commission may take . . . ask the council to take appropriate action...