Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those days saw fighting as bitter as any in the war. It was a succession of desperately fought street battles, with U.S. and German tanks rattling past each other on adjacent streets, while progress was measured by the capture or loss of a single house, even a single room in a house...
Leader Barkley read his copy three times, incredulous, shocked, then angry. The temperate words which the President had read aloud the day before were still there. But peppered among them now were other words, phrases, sentences, bitter, taunting, contemptuous words which stung the majority leader like slaps in the face: "unwise," "inept," "indefensible special privileges to favored groups," "dangerous precedents for the future," "disappoint and fail the American taxpayers." Taxpayers' confusion, asserted the President, was not the Treasury's fault but "squarely the fault of the Congress of the United States...
Significance. In the midst of its greatest war was the U.S. in for a siege of bitter feuding between President and Congress? It might be. Much depended on what was going on in the mind of Franklin Roosevelt as, day after day, he remained secluded from press and public in his military-secret hideaway...
...Glorified Messenger Boy." He graduated to the Senate in 1926, was re-elected in the Roosevelt landslide of 1932. The next year, when Democrats reorganized the Senate, Alben Barkley became assistant to powerful, stocky Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson. In 1937, at the peak of the bitter, party-splitting fight over the President's Supreme Court-packing bill, Joe Robinson died. Senate Democrats got ready to elect Mississippi's popular Pat Harrison to the leadership. But Franklin Roosevelt wanted a majority leader of his own choosing. In days of the hottest kind of politicking, when New Dealers were...
...Crisis. In both cases able minds have been replaced by less able. To Tojo the bitter pill of Truk was sugared by his triumph over his old rival Sugiyama. To Sugiyama and Nagano the bitter pill was sugared with appointment as "highest military advisers to His Majesty...