Word: bitterness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear the evidence in this astounding tale of big, illegal medicine business, a jury of seven men and five women last week settled down to what they expected would be a long, bitter trial. First witness for the prosecution was the amateur abortionist, Paul de Gaston. He swore to the truth of most of the prosecutor's charges...
Famed in Chicago is Pianist Moissaye Boguslawski for the muff which he wears in winter to protect his talented fingers from the stiffening cold of Lake Michigan's bitter breezes (see cut). Another stunt of "Bogie" Boguslawski was to play for Chicago's Station WJJD all the piano music of Bach, all the sonatas of Beethoven, in what he called a "musical marathon." Beethoven took nine weeks, Bach twelve. Two years ago Mr. Boguslawski said the music produced by most contemporary composers "gave him the hiccoughs." Fortnight ago this ebullient musician came out as a composer himself...
Powell, smiling, superior, quietly humorous, was far outshone by the impetuous Lombard. Madcap society daughter Lombard suffers from a bitter jealousy of her older sister. Searching for a forgotten man to help beat her sister in a scavenger hunt, Lombard finds Powell living on the city dump. Grateful to him for having helped beat her sister, Lombard adopts Powell as her protege and gives him the position of butler...
...other leading figures in the Republican set-up of much sounder calibre. Frank Knox, a bombastic publisher and bitter foe of William Randolph Hearst, has called a truce in the Chicago newspaper war for the duration of the campaign, bearing out the old saying, "politics makes strange bed-fellows". Ranging next in importance behind the standard bearers one finds a line of mid-western politicians:--hardly men of cabinet timber or potential leaders in the government of the United States. Roy Roberts, Lacy Haynes, William Allen White, Hill Blackett, Robert P. Taft: these are the men who, presumably, will...
...roads. Last week, when President Roosevelt "temporarily" appointed three* of the five Commissioners, their major duty was to make the U. S. Merchant Marine fit for competitive war with all comers on the high seas. This work lies ahead of them. Meantime, under their noses last week raged a bitter internecine war within the U. S. Merchant Marine itself, about which the Commission soon found it could do very little...