Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over three weeks ago a bitter ruction broke out in print among the elite of U. S. sportswriters when New York News Sports Editor Jimmy Powers reproached some of his fellows for an alleged alliance with sharp Promoter Mike Jacobs. New York Mirror Sports Editor Dan Parker countered that "Screwball Bowers" had "appropriated" word for word a Herbert Gorem sports story from the New York Sun, "used it ... in his syndicated out-of-town column...
...Wall Street word promptly went the rounds that Mr. Whitney's retreat came after a bitter squabble in the utility family in which members of the industry brought pressure to bear on United Corp. to maintain the united front. Telling the story last week, Commissioner Douglas heaved a long sigh of discouragement. "What can you do?" he asked...
...Bitter cold, plus driving snow & sleet. literally froze military gains stiff in north and central China. In the sunny south, where Japanese troops are not yet operating on a large scale, Japanese pilots busied themselves systematically bombing Canton's rail approaches from both Hankow and Hong Kong. One day this week they bombed in relays for nine solid hours, the heaviest air-strafing yet seen in Japan's war in China...
Meanwhile, for the third time bitter fighting was under way at Teruel. Generalissimo Franco, having decided that to recapture that city was a better psychological move than starting another offensive, laid down the heaviest artillery barrage the war has yet seen. Wave after wave of his infantry followed, finally captured El Muleton, the second of Teruel's four strategic heights to be regained by the Rightists. Sticking grimly to their lines, Leftist officers admitted that if El Caudillo had sufficient reserves, Teruel might fall to the Rightists again, pointed out that this would leave Franco just where...
...Novelist Thomas Wolfe dedicated his Of Time and the River to Scribner's Editor Maxwell Perkins who launched him on his career. The dedication called "Max" Perkins "a great editor and a brave and honest man, who stuck to the author of this book through times of bitter hopelessness and doubt and would not let him give way to his own despair," included a hope that the work was worthy of the devotion of "a dauntless and unshaken friend," and closed with a confession that the book would never have been written without it. Last week Thomas Wolfe, announcing...