Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These jubilant words were spoken last week by Vice President John Nance Garner to the Senate's Democratic Leader Alben Barkley. What the Vice President had just done was to end, in one minute less than an hour, the bitter Senate wrangle that had tied up U. S. legislation for the last six months. Using the steamroller tactics that he learned as Speaker of the House, Vice President Garner had with an historic gesture put the modified Court Bill through the U. S. Senate without a dissenting vote...
...widowed mother, Herrie also got an encouraging word from the millowner's wife. The first complication was the millowner's disgust when Herrie joined his fellow-workers on strike. In the starvation-haunted months before the workers were beaten, Herrie reciprocated that disgust, discovered the bitter source of such humor as: "Nay, you don't have to bring no hard times to Skirthorpe. . . . This is the exporting center. . . ." Herrie's part in the strike ended when he was badly injured in a cave-in while stealing coal. Recovered, he joined his blacklisted friend Tawpun...
Nevertheless the Governor did not sign the bill. While it lay on his desk he listened to bitter protests from labor leaders who saw in the "otherwise" clause an open invitation to a reactionary court to forbid picketing altogether. Limiting picketing to those on strike precluded even demonstrations by strikers' wives & daughters. Last week one hour before the law would have become effective Governor Murphy vetoed...
...ready-witted patriarch with a slow drawl and snow white hair, Commissioner Davis was a Roosevelt appointee, specializes in fraudulent advertising. He once received a bitter complaint from an executive whose salary had been revealed in an FTC hearing. Replied Mr. Davis, cocking his head slyly: "My dear sir, if anybody paid me $90,000-and I really earned it-I would be glad to tell the whole world." William Augustiis Ayres, 70, now FTC chairman (the job rotates from year to year). A tall, slender, Wilsonian liberal who was on the House Naval Affairs Committee when Franklin Roosevelt...
...school superintendents and pedagogs, who overtaxed their pupils' brains with useless study; 2) the brazen influence of women who demanded equal rights for an inferior sex. So copious and infuriated did Mr. See become that at length he composed a book, published it in 1928 with a bitter title: Schools. Sample thoughts...