Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Situation. Beveridge remains outside. Robinson's appointment is good until the general elections a year from now. For that period it gives the Republicans an extra vote in the Senate. But next fall there will be a bitter fight. Watson will be up for re-election for a full term. Robinson will probably stand for re-election for the unexpired Ralston term, lasting until 1929. Beveridge will fight one of them for his place?probably Robinson because he is weaker. And Governor Ed. Jackson may come into the fray by resigning and running for the Senate. With four Republicans...
...acquaintance and friend of the former Chief Justice, permit me to say that he was not a Confederate Veteran, but an Illinois Copperhead- and a bitter one at that, but he never entered the Rebel Army ; also he was not a Roman Catholic, he and his family were members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, having been formerly members of the Congregational Church in Augusta, Me., and entering the Episcopal Church just before or a few years after the Chief Justice was born. I think he saw the error of his ways as to Copperheadism, and would not thank...
Strange wastrel days. . . . tragic, cruel days when he struggled with a life that was bitter...
...current issue of the Nation Jo Swerling rehearses the story of the rise of that sad phenomenon of modern degeneracy, the tabloid newspaper. His account bristles with satiric humor, but under it all runs a tragic under-current, --the bitter contempt and resentment of old-time newspaperman toward this present day state of depravity into which his profession has fallen...
Aeronautics. The chief fighting matter before the convention was Col. William Mitchell's aviation charges. A large section of the convention was for taking a stand directly behind. A bitter contest was feared. The Aeronautics Committee struggled for three days with the question of formulating a resolution. It turned out finally an endorsement of Col. Mitchell's plan for a single Department of National Defense with coequal Army, Navy and Air branches. The convention endorsed this and saved a fight...