Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently, according to Paris-Soir, svelte Cinemactress Riefenstahl attended a reception at the home of Nazi Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick. Also present was bitter little Paul Joseph Goebbels, the No. 3 Nazi and chief propagandist...
...Many a bitter, cynical attack has been made on the Old Deal and Charles Gates Dawes because of the $90,000,000 loan made by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to his Chicago bank in 1932, shortly after he resigned as RFC president. In last week's issue of the Saturday Evening Post, the record of that transaction was set straight. It was told how General Dawes announced to other Chicago bankers and officials of the RFC that his bank would not open next morning; how he made it plain that he was asking no help for his bank, merely...
...afternoon they took the bill, in committee-of-the-whole, and attached their earmarking amendments to it. Two days later Leader Rayburn attempted to pull the Administration forces together and undo the damage. Representative Woodrum, bitter that $500,000,000 should be cut for pork but not for economy, assisted. But the earmarking bloc remained in the saddle. The Administration leaders had to resort to a filibuster to keep the earmarked bill from being rushed to passage. The temper of the House was made manifest when an amendment was adopted limiting any WPA salary to $10,000. No name needed...
...company men in the plants. Soon Republie had airplanes shuttling back and forth, landing in the yard of one plant, dropping food on others where landing was not possible. Airplanes of the strikers performed fancy aerobatics trying to drive off the company planes. Soon feeling on both sides was bitter. The strikers swore that no food should be taken into the plants until all company men were withdrawn. They in turn were charged with firing from the ground on planes bearing food...
...bitter contest between two potent oldsters General Evangeline Booth, 71, and Commissioner Henry W. Mapp; 67-to control the world-wide Salvation Army flared up again last week for perhaps the last time. Tall, ruddy Henry Mapp came within the orbit of the Booth dynasty in India 50 years ago, when he joined the Army under Commissioner Edward Booth-Tucker, son-in-law of Founder William Booth. Mapp moved upward alone, to become the Army's Chief-of-Staff, administrator of some 26,000 officers and candidate for its Generalship when General Edward John Higgins made ready to retire...