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...enough for eager spectators that the whole boxful had been lumped together the day before by Soviet President Mikhail Kalinin as "the bitterest enemies of the Soviet Union, leagued in a conspiracy to overthrow the Soviet Government-men who have stooped so low that they have lost their human aspect!" A clerk at Judge Ulrich's elbow read rapidly an indictment of the accused so complex that his swift sentences left spectators blurred as to details. Quite clear, though, were the main charges that the 16 prisoners had contrived among themselves at least four separate plots to kill Joseph...
...reelection. When Franklin Roosevelt gratefully accepted this support, craft unionists began to suspect that he would reward it by siding with John Lewis in Labor's internal dispute. A further political complication was the fact that one of the A. F. of L. Executive Council's bitterest enemies of industrial unionism, President William L. Hutcheson of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, who hates Leader Lewis not only for his ideas but for the fisticuff Lewis dealt him at the last A. F. of L. convention (TIME, Oct. 28), was chairman of the Republican Labor committee...
...early tea of Foreign Minister Anthony Eden last Sunday was the bitterest brew he had ever had to swallow. Read the dispatches any way he would, there was only one conclusion: Benito Mussolini had effectively smashed Ethiopia, wrecked the League of Nations and given British prestige an enormous black...
...rule has been to give the South a veto over the rest of the nation's Democrats, produce much bitter dissension. Knowing that he cannot be beaten by a simple majority, many a trailing Democratic hopeful has hung on long after he should have given up. Longest and bitterest deadlock of this kind occurred in 1924, when it took almost three sweating weeks and 103 ballots to convince the followers of William G. McAdoo and Alfred E. Smith that neither could be nominated...
...York, the day's biggest crowd, 56,000, which included Mayor LaGuardia, onetime Mayor "Jimmy" Walker and George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, saw the New York Giants overpower their bitterest rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers...