Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the President squared off, there were hoots from the sidelines. Big, bluff Joe Ryan, president of the A.F.L.'s International Longshoremen's Association and bitter-end foe of Joe Curran, roared: "A strike to turn the U.S. shipping industry over to Russia...
...Congress is working for special interests . . . the National Association of Broadcasters ... big business and Wall Street. . . . The Lea bill was conceived in malice and anger resulting from one of the most expensive and bitter anti-labor propaganda campaigns in the history of our country...
...step, often bitter, he remained the beau ideal of the Senate. He had no fear of political consequences; in later years he did not even campaign for office. There was dignity and gallantry about the homely little man. Sometimes, carried away by lost causes, he attacked his adversaries physically. Once he plunged at Huey Long -because the Kingfish had taken the liberty of calling him by his first name...
Britain's announcement that anti-Russian General Anders' 100,000 Poles in Italy would be brought to Britain instead of being sent back to Poland touched off a bitter press campaign in Moscow and London (see cut). The exiled Polish Army's duty is "not yet finished," said Anders in Italy. "Our march to a free and independent Poland goes on." Pravda charged that certain "circles" in the U.S. and Britain "dream of finding for the Polish émigré troops a 'suitable...
...Patterson had a lot in common with Franklin Roosevelt-a rich man's socialism, an appetite for power, a trust in a Big Navy-but from being a fervent supporter, he turned to a bitter enemy when Franklin Roosevelt went international. Joe Patterson was a good hater. His hatred for Roosevelt became almost pathological; and anything went, from cracks about Roosevelt's lameness to Poison Penman John O'Donnell's leers at Roosevelt's Jewish advisers. New York City's millions continued to return landslide votes for Roosevelt-and to read the Daily News...