Word: rancour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsibility extending beyond their own pocket-lining, the Hartley bill, passed by the House and awaiting Senate action, threatens to annul whatever facility in the art of resolving labor disputes has been acquired in the last decade. Opponents have charged that the bill is the product of spite and rancour. But even if it was framed with the best motives, the fact that it issued from a committee whose chairman was so interested in labor affairs that he attended exactly six Labor Committee meetings in ten years, plus the admission that corporation lawyers "sat in" and "made suggestions" when...