Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night train back to Chicago. He paid the entire expense of the trip himself. He lost one day from his Chicago paper, but his good sportsmanship and courtesy to the Louisiana newspaper publishers and editors will not soon be forgotten. Behind that tough exterior you paint in such bitter colors, he evidently has a heart...
...Springs, Ark. In a bedroom of the fashionable Arlington Hotel he met the one-time associate of his Florida days, Silver Bob Alexander. That afternoon the double zero of life's roulette wheel came up for Gambler Ballard: Alexander, 33, was said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract. Pat Piper, a Chicago bookmaker in the next room, was struck by a piece of plaster when a bullet crashed through the wall. When detectives broke down the door they found Ballard seated in a chair...
...minutes later he amended this, adding: "Aside from [the attack on the Social Security Tax] I prefer to remember this campaign not as bitter but only as hard-fought. There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America...
...Delaware, Daniel 0. Hastings, the New Deal's most bitter Senate critic and head of the Republican Senatorial Committee whose particular job was to win Senate seats throughout the U. S., went down to defeat, partly as the result of a split which resulted in two Republican tickets appearing on the ballot. His seat was won by Democrat James Hurd Hughes, snow-haired, 69-year-oldster who has dabbled most of life in politics and is a mild supporter of the New Deal. Next Republican rubbed out was Senator W. Warren Barbour, big, rich, kinky-haired onetime amateur prizefighter...
Since then, the Penn and Central lines have been bitter rivals. Central's chief asset was the mail contract from Detroit to Washington, Pennsylvania's the longer route with a mail contract between Detroit and Milwaukee. Central plumped for trimotored Stinsons, Pennsylvania for twin-motored Boeings. The battle involved rate cuts, protests to the Post Office and the I. C. C. Neither side won an advantage. Both thrived. In 1935 Pennsylvania's passenger traffic was 200% better than in 1934. This year the gain has been nearly as great. Central did equally well; August...