Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sugar. Around sugar revolved a bitter controversy. Western beet sugar producers, representing themselves as infant-industrialists, had demanded higher tariff rates aimed at Cuban cane, and a limitation on the free importation of Philippine sugar. The House bill raised the world raw sugar duty from $2.20 to $3 per 100 Ib. which would make Cuba, which already enjoys a 20% differential, pay a tariff of $2.40 per 100 Ib. instead of the present $1.76. Swayed by the protest of Secretary of State Stimson as a onetime Governor-General of the Philippines, the House committee placed no limitation on free sugar...
When Tammany Leader George Washington Olvany resigned six weeks ago (TIME, March 25),'the bitter difference between Tammany and its greatest son was clearly exposed. Tammany said Smith had "the big head"; that his talk about a "New Tammany" cloaked his personal ambition to be President. Smith said Tammany was small-minded; he suspected it had cut his presidential vote in the city for local, selfish ends of its own. Out of politics himself, he wished Tammany would elect as leader some man of wider experience than a district leader- someone like New York's Senator Wagner...
...that "all the opinions expressed are purely personal and commit no one but myself." Far from expecting tact in the pronouncements of his public men, the Englishman relishes spirited aspersions hurled from high office. Especially does he expect "Winnie" Churchill, proverbial playboy - poohbah of British politics - to say his bitter say against Americans and Bolsheviks, and to sing his little song for whatever policy is momentarily...
Many a hearer of the schoolmasters' bitter words was indignant. But some were startled to thought. Was it true that women bribed, corrupted? Are any U. S. educators ever amenable to bribery...
...leading article in the April American Mercury was a bitter denunciation of the "Progressives" of the Senate written by a person who, to insure his future comfort in Washington, D. C., signed himself simply "A Washington Correspondent...