Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor Day statement. By coincidence it sounded so much like a pointed reply to C. I. O.'s major-domo that some papers described it as such. Wrote the President: "The age-old contest between Capital and Labor has been complicated in recent months through mutual distrust and bitter recrimination. Both sides have made mistakes. . . ." On one major point, the President and John Lewis agreed: "The conference table must eventually take the place of the strike...
Last week the Nicaraguan Government put out a postage stamp depicting "the official map of Nicaragua." Honduras promptly demanded the stamp's suppression. Nicaragua refused and the rumpus began. Many Nicaraguan residents of Honduras were returned home by their legation in Tegucigalpa; orators of both countries broadcast bitter speeches; Honduran students, learning that Nicaraguan firebrands were urging war, declared themselves ready to fight back, thundered in a manifesto that "to die for the Fatherland is to open the doors of immortality...
...Brig.-General Frank Percy Crozier, 58, onetime British Army officer, author of The Men I Killed, A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, etc.; at Walton-on-Thames, England. General Crozier's experiences in the wars, from which he drew his books, made him a famed, bitter pacifist. Last week as he lay dying, Army officials were soundly berating him because in his latest book, The Men I Killed, he said that in the World War British officers shot their own and Portuguese soldiers to make them fight...
Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, knowing the mettle of this opponent, retaliated in kind. Over the Chinese forces in the Shanghai area-some 300,000-he put his onetime bitter enemy, General Pai Tsung-hsi, long held China's most brilliant military strategist. Promptly the campaign began to take shape...
...rich kid's old man tries to have Tommy pinched for copping his son's watch Tommy slashes him with a pocket knife and runs away. Interspersed in this frieze of juvenile delinquency are adult characters whose unanimous disillusionment adds the last drop of poison to this bitter scene, notably Tommy's sister Drina (Sylvia Sidney) who is picketing for a wage high enough to enable her to move Tommy out of the slums, the young architect (Joel McCrea) who dreams of some day being able to rebuild the slums but at the same time wants passionately...