Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks; 2) growing fears of a major business recession. The results were: 1) an immediate move to give relief to Wall Street stock traders; 2) clear evidence that New Deal was giving thought to helping Business and Business was beginning to regret the bitter things it had said about New Deal spending. During the week, the Federal Reserve Board loosened margin requirements,, effective Nov. 1, thus carrying stocks through their steadiest week in two months (see p. 59). By week's end, Washington was seriously considering the possibility that Congress must soon revise and modify the capital gains...
That Mrs. McCarthy, whose husband was a Democratic Senator in Landon's Legislature, was not entirely disinterested in producing evidence reflecting discredit on the Landon administration, Kansas was well aware. During her Congressional term, a bitter argument preceded her removal from a park board post to which Mrs. McCarthy felt herself entitled for life. Answer to her charges by Will T. Beck, former member of the State Board of Administration, was that "most of the girls sterilized were sexual perverts, obstreperous, fighters or near degenerates. . . . Parents or guardians . . . were notified. . . . Few appeared to protest." Mr. Beck also produced...
...starting his Saragossa offensive now, Leftist General Sebastian Pozas had good reason last week. But six weeks of decent fighting weather remain before the bitter Spanish winter closes down. Gijon, last Leftist stronghold on the Bay of Biscay, was so close to capture that most of its officials had already fled to sanctuary in France, and in the field of foreign diplomacy, where so much of Spain's war has been fought, Generalissimo Franco's chief supporter, Italy, was finishing a most successful week...
...custom to vice president and president. At the New Orleans convention two years ago outspoken Orval Webster Adams, executive vice president of Utah State National Bank of Salt Lake City and thus a representative of small unit bankers, jumped to his feet on the floor and offered the bitter and impractical suggestion that bankers boycott U. S. bonds. Supported by a surge of other independent bankers, Orval Adams became second vice president. Last week he succeeded to the presidency, thus marking the end of a line of officers conciliatory to the New Deal. More immediately important to bankers, he represents...
...really interested in worldwide threats to our religious institutions and to our freedom of thought, we can at present find alarming examples of religious persecution in Nazi Germany," the petitioners say. "In Germany to our amazement, persecution of Jews, Roman Catholics, and Protestants has been bitter and persistent...