Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coty owns Figaro and Gaulois, and the new Ami du Peuple, founded some months ago and sold, in spite of bitter opposition by other papers and the news-vending organizations controlled by them, at the cut-rate of two sous. The usual price of a paper in Paris is five sous (25 centimes, about one cent). With headlines that would be called flaring in Paris, with crime stories played up, it was said to have attained already a circulation of around 800,000. However, in France circulations are not audited; so it was equally possible to believe (or doubt) Helen...
...report touching all phases of the work in 1928. Some facts: The Federal employment service found jobs for 1,412,645 applicants. The Bureau of Conciliation intervened in 478 industrial disputes. It worked to tranquillize strikes and lockouts affecting 350,000 workers (but claimed no great success in the bitter, long-drawn coal strike of last winter, which it proved powerless to end). Immigration is in Labor's province and Secretary Davis dwelt at some length on how the restrictive immigration law of 1924 had worked. Two things worried him, or two phases of the same thing. Immigrants from...
...Arizonans are bitter-enders. The Hunt-Colter fracas last week was only a minor skirmish on one side of the lines that will join battle again in Washington this winter...
...immortality. When this happens they have a routine gesture of generosity. They hang his pictures in the Luxembourg. For a minimum of ten years the pictures generally stay there. Thousands see them, thousands talk about them, the pundits study them. Only the work of genius can survive this bitter ordeal by familiarity. At length the enduring works are borne with punditical hosannas to the Louvre. The rest descend in devious channels to oblivion...
...Arbor, at the University of Michigan, are nearly 10,000 students. For the several thousands who must board in Ann Arbor homes, the Board of Regents planned last September an $800,000 dormitory. At this, there arose bitter and prolonged outcry from some 7,000 landladies who will be left boarderless...