Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defeated, his Senate seniority will go to his bitter foe, slippery William Langer, another kind of North Dakota statesman. In 1942, "Slippery Bill" triumphed over ten fat volumes of charges of moral turpitude: his Senate colleagues voted (52-10-30) to ignore the whole thing. Last week, having maneuvered Senator Nye into a three-cornered primary fight, Slippery Bill stumped the state with his own hand-picked candidate. He hoped to inherit: 1) control of two seats in the U.S. Senate; 2) all of North Dakota's Federal patronage; 3) overlordship of Bismarck's 19-story State Capitol...
...century on Negro labor-fretted and fumed at doing the hard work. But Mississippians continued to tack up bigger & bolder Jim Crow signs. There was no pause in the steady run of "incidents" between white civilians and Negro soldiers at the state's 36 military establishments. Politicians, bitter at the New Deal for "pampering" the colored folks, went right on orating in favor of white supremacy. The Grenada County Weekly editorialized: "The good darkies of the South should remember that, at the best, Eleanor [Roosevelt] will be boss of the U.S. a limited time, while the good white people...
...Asiatic mainland, the Chinese captured Lungling, drove closer to the reopening of the Burma Road. Farther east, bitter fighting raged around the beleaguered Chinese city of Changsha, and from the south, around Canton, the Japanese launched another drive into the heart of China...
...night, our thoughts are bent on one sole purpose: how we may be able to meet this bitter trial, helping all without distinction of nationality or race, and how we may help toward restoring peace at last to tortured mankind...
London Booms. But the optimism of Wall Street last week was modest compared to the bursting enthusiasm of the London market. Stocks hit their war peak, according to London's Financial Times industrial average. This brought a bitter cry from The Daily Herald (labor) about this "orgy of gambling...