Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money rolled in, he began to put on weight, lose his hair but not his vim, ease up on poker and take to golf. He could afford to play politics without running for office. By picking his candidates after the primaries, he steered clear of West Virginia's bitter Democratic feuds, thus stands well with such enemies as Senators Matthew M. Neely and anti-New Deal Rush Holt...
...TIME, Feb. 28), was nominated to run for Congress on the Communist ticket. Her opponent: Paul Kilday, who last month defeated the incumbent, rip-snorting Maury Maverick, for renomination. Nominee Kilday's brother is San Antonio's Chief of Police Owen P. Kilday, Emma Tenayuca's bitter enemy and twice her host when she was jailed for civil commotions...
...Railway Labor Act replaced it with a five-man U. S. Board of Mediation. This failed to succeed because the law provided no penalties for evasion of the board's decisions and because Calvin Coolidge's appointees were generally inefficient. In 1934, against the bitter lobbying of the Association of American Railroads, the New Deal shoved through a Railway Labor Act Amendment with teeth in it, set up a three-man National Mediation Board. Chairman since then has been little, alert, Estonian-born Dr. William Morris Leiserson, onetime professor of economics at Antioch College and a lifelong expert...
...Angeles lawyer's office, one-time Cinemoppet Jackie (The Kid) Coogan bestowed a kiss upon the cheek of Mrs. Lillian Coogan Bernstein, his mother and bitter opponent in a law suit over his $4,000,000 estate (TIME, April 18). Mrs. Bernstein wept...
...enough Old Guard resentment still remained to make the elevation of Martin inevitable. Others had played a bigger part in the battle than he, but feelings were still too bitter to allow their choice...