Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Motives. Rules Committee Chairman Snell (New York) described and classified the amendment's supporters according to motive, as follows: "First are the hysterical drys, who will do anything they are told to do by the active head of the dry organization; next are the bitter wets, willing to do anything to make prohibition a farce; third are the politicians who are seeking to rehabilitate themselves with their constituencies by voting dry after supporting a wet Presidential candidate; and finally there is a group willing to do anything to embarrass the incoming administration...
From remote, barbaric Alma Alta, on the distent rim of Russian Turkestan, Great Leo Davidovich Trotsky returned, last week, toward the civilized world. With him traveled his wife and son, glad to end a bitter exile (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But in European Communist centres it was feared that Trotsky's release from banishment was a trick and prophets croaked that he would be "accidentally" killed en route...
...Childs' executive office is war, with hard feeling, recrimination and bitter, bitter words. Last week came upheaval, with casualties of one president, one secretary, one legal counsel, one Executive Committee. In their places came a new president, new secretary, two new vice presidents, no new Executive Committee. Victorious, at least temporarily, was Founder William Childs, who last December was deposed as President and installed in theoretical passivity as Chairman of the Board. Mr. Childs regarded his Chairmanship as no honorary position. Securing a 6 to 2 control of the directors, he last week bodily removed the "usurping" executives and replaced...
...course, Editor High referred to the acerbities which have greeted Bishop Cannon's militant Anti-Saloon League activities (see p. 12) and his leadership of the bitter anti-Smith campaign among Southern Democrats...
...prohibition enforcement. Three substitute amendments were suggested: Washington's Jones suggested $1,250,000 to be used chiefly for educational purposes; Georgia's Harris wished to raise the Jones amount to $24,000,000. Virginia's Glass suggested $250,000 to finance Herbert Hoover's proposed investigation committee. Bitter and intricate was the argument revolving about these varied proposals. No decision could be reached...