Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Investigation. But not all citizens of Wisconsin were saying it with flowers for the new Governor. It will be remembered that Mr. Kohler was elected in opposition to the powerful La Follette group which has for many a year controlled Wisconsin politics. Angry, the bitter-enders among the La Follette organization drew up a petition accusing Governor Kohler of having spent $104,000 on his campaign. As the Wisconsin law puts $4,000 as a maximum campaign expenditure, the petitioners sought to disqualify the Governor from office as a violator of the states's corrupt practices act. Among signers...
...annual meeting of the stockholders of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana will be held on March 7. Only a handful of the 58,000 stockholders* will be present. But practically every stockholder will be represented by a proxy, for a bitter fight is to be settled. One group of proxies will be held by a representative of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. The other will be held by Col. Robert Wright Stewart. The fight is over the re-election of Colonel Stewart as Chairman of the Board...
...incontestably legal heir to Russia's vanished Throne is now the Grand Duke Cyril Yladimirovitch, a bitter rival of Nicholas, who long since proclaimed himself ''Tsar of Russia...
...eight states in proportion to their populations was an unsolved problem in Congress for over a hundred years. Up to 1921, no scientific tests of a good apportionment were known; a variety of empirical methods were tried and later discarded, and the decennial debates in the House were often bitter. On one occasion, after a long speech by Daniel Webster, the Senate reversed the action of the House on purely mathematical grounds. If the House is to be kept at its present size of 435 members, any gain for one state will necessarily mean a loss for some other state...
...number of psychopathological concepts such as those of dissociation, repression, complex, rationalization, identification, projection and introjection have already found a place as convenient forms of description for otherwise indescribable phenomena. It is the concept of the unconscious however that has raised the most bitter antagonism. To the psychologists who have had a first hand acquaintance with the eccentricities of the mind it has become increasingly clear that a complete description of mental phenomena was impossible without the supposition of processes in every way similar to those subjectively apprehended as psychical occurring outside the field of awareness. This...