Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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World Court. Before the Senate reached the tax bill, however, it had to dispose of a proposal, pending for three years, that the U. S, adhere to the World Court with reservations. The struggle by a minority opposition was bitter and concluded with a ten days' filibuster and the application of cloture to end debate. The U. S. adhered...
Expectations. The Democrats had already begun to make the Pennsylvania primary an issue. It seems quite likely that there will be a bitter fight in the next Congress to prevent the seating of Vare if he is elected, and there is no small likelihood that an effort will be made to put on record Senators who come up for election as to whether they will vote to unseat Vare...
...them is Mr. Brookhart, who was defeated in 1924 because he denounced Mr. Dawes as part of the Republican ticket. Now Mr. Brookhart is quoting Dawes on farm relief in Iowa. Another is Senator Watson of Indiana. Senator Fess of Ohio, hoary onetime college president, launched a bitter attack on "this Dawes-McNary-Haugen plan...
...Thank God for Russia!" The Earl of Birkenhead, bitter-ender Tory, Secretary of State for India, lashed at "Emperor" A. J. Cook, Secretary of the Coal Miners' Federation, as follows in a public address...
...goal is to be reached, those who can be must be very generous. Your committee felt that if it circularized our 44,000 graduates without a preliminary sounding out for large subscriptions, the result would fall so far short that Harvard indifference would be a bitter jest when applied to a subject of such sacred sentiment as a memorial to its dead. Therefore so far we have approached only those who, in our judgment, were able, if they would, to give $5,000 or more, and as yet but few of those. It is our hope to make such progress...