Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...justice Mr. Welles could return such a charge to his State Department chief." To the hubbub caused by Welles's resignation was added a hubbub of speculation over his possible successor. The candidate reportedly favored by Cordell Hull-onetime Ambassador-to-Italy Breckinridge Long - was certain to meet bitter opposition from those who think democratic aspirations are important. For Breckin ridge Long, whose swank parties were attended by the fanciest members of Ital ian society, has won no distinction by his opposition to Fascism. Other candidates for Sumner Welles's vacated job are Career-Diplomat George S. Messersmith...
Author of the plan is pint-sized, vitriolic Clarence Budington Kelland, G.O.P. National Committeeman from Arizona, longtime fictioneer for the Saturday Evening Post (Sugarfoot, Arizona), onetime tub-thumping isolationist (Pearl Harbor changed his mind). A bitter-end Republican, he caused a rumpus in Manhattan's famed Dutch Treat Club by stating, in May 1940, that the Fifth Column in America was headed "by that fellow in the White House...
...rest of the world could only wait and hope. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had doubtless solved their immediate military problems. Their political problems were much harder. The Russian demand for a second front had always conflicted in the past with U.S.-British military policy (after the bitter post-Pearl Harbor defeats) of attacking only in overwhelming force, after a thorough pasting from the air. And in spite of Russia's blandly ignoring the fact, the U.S. and Britain were now busily engaged on five major fronts, all over the world. Conflicting Russian-British-U.S. attitudes toward postwar...
Chain Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, who has fought many a long and bitter campaign (against the Supreme Court packing plan, the $25,000 salary limit etc.), began another last month. He warned U.S. booksellers of probable libel suits if they handled a new book: pseudonymous Author John Roy Carlson's Under Cover, a history of Bundists, Kluxers and assorted nightshirters (see p. 97}. The book declares that the Committee for Constitutional Government, founded by Frank Gannett, had tie-ups with the fellow travelers of Fascism. The Chicago Tribune also began to attack the book...
...American Patriots Inc.-"bitter old dowagers" who gave fat rolls of greenbacks to support a corps of "ushers" for "patriotic" rallies; who "sucked in their breath with horror" at the thought of "13,000,000 Communist niggers turned loose" to rape their daughters...