Word: bitterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually, only Senator Clark made any noticeable effort to stir up scandal. Committee Counsel Raushenbush, far from being a bitter prosecutor like Ferdinand Pecora, was obviously making no effort to send his witnesses to jail, had no belief that the men before him were villains, aimed at no more than to show that war trade and war finance are a danger to peace. Chairman Nye, too, was content with building up a ponderous record which might be used to prove that: 1) In time of foreign war the U. S. should not trade with or finance belligerents; 2) There should...
...annals of humanity the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt!" Less quick-witted than usual, Boss Farley called for a vote on the resolution. To the mortification of all present, instead of making the resolution unanimous and unfaltering, disloyal Gene Talmadge removed the cigar from his mouth, snarled a bitter...
...surroundings. It would be irony indeed if the United States spent millions of dollars on a marble palace only to have even one Supreme Court Justice feel dwarfed and impotent in it. Or perhaps Justice Stone, chafing at the oblivion of a minority opinion, has purposely prepared a bitter brew for his colleagues. At any rate he has caused a ghost to stalk through the pillared halls of the Supreme Court, but it is hoped that the phantom will haunt no one but Justice Stone himself...
...question of silicosis last week caused a wrangle in San Francisco, where doctors, lawyers, miners, mineowners, insurance men, legislators, public health agents and fuss-budgets met to argue the pros & cons of a disease which has lately taken the public spotlight as the subject of bitter industrial controversy...
...Federal Reserve Board. Last week, for the fourth time in 1935, the members of those august bodies met in Washington, looked at one another with sad eyes. They had met to part but even their parting was not allowed to be sweet sorrow. A grave problem and bitter issue was on hand to discomfit even their valedictory...