Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Education. One bitter theme was Federal aid for local schools. South Carolina's Johnston: "We should be as jealous of individual liberty in education as we are of individual liberty in religion. . . . South Carolina will always demand its right to segregate the whites and the blacks. . . . We would not condone anything which approaches racial equality." North Carolina's Hoey: "In my State the municipalities accepted State funds and the burden of education gradually shifted to the State. The same thing will happen in the Federal Government." Maine's Barrows: "I most certainly fear control of education...
Floods & Power. From George Aiken of Vermont came a bitter blast at Federal intervention in flood control. The whole Connecticut River flood-control program has been held up by New Deal insistence that, in return for Federal aid, all reservoir and power sites be turned over to the Federal Government-which Vermont refused to do. Vermont's Aiken: "Shall the Federal Government have the authority to take from a State without its consent and with or without recompense the natural resources [reservoir and power sites] upon which the industry, the income and the welfare of the people may depend...
...many painful autums at least one person has pondered the plight of the friendless Freshman who reaches the Yard with a bag in one hand and shaking fingers in the other. It is hard for the popular Andoverite or Grotonian to understand the feeling of complete, bitter solitude which assails countless new students the first few days of their college career. The Union has tried to mitigate this condition by providing an excellent buffet supper on registration day, served by waitresses with motherly smiles. What with the awful immensity of Memorial Hall and the complexities of the registration card, University...
After a long, bitter legal battle during which Bubbleman Bowman spent most of his time scuttling around the Gulf of Mexico in a sea-sled, the Pennsylvania State supreme court upheld his reinstatement as president of Gum, Inc. last July. That month Gum, Inc. made $7,472, after six months' earnings of $49,000 on sales estimated at about $800,000. Bubbleman Bowman's only current worry is a suit by his estranged second wife, Ruth, who claims a verbal agreement to a half-interest in his holdings. Last week, after the first arguments were heard, Philadelphians believed...
Aimed at the whole precept-and-practice of the British medical profession, The, Citadel is a brilliantly bitter attack by a man in dead earnest. Says Author Cronin: The small-town English G. P. (general practitioner) who does everything from confinements to corn-cutting has no time, soon no desire, to keep up-to-date. The medical bigwigs are smothered in red tape. Worst of all, perhaps, are the specialists- typified by the word "Harley Street"- who exploit the rich, scratch one another's backs to their mutual profit, in some cases make fortunes on the side by performing...