Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thank you all, good people, for the support you have given me," Mike told his friends. "You have seen the low, mean things which that man Willy Flanagan would stoop to in order to defeat me. We have won in spite...
...members of the National Council for the Social Studies. They are the people who write most of the history for school children, devise courses of study in history, civics, economics, geography, sociology. They take their jobs and themselves seriously. Distressed but not daunted by evidence that, in spite of their textbooks (and the field investigations which they prescribe for students), the world is still full of knaves and fools, this week they published a book* that attempted to get the schools off to a fresh start in citizen-making...
...Rubber Co.'s Paul W. Litchfield this week fixed a figurative bayonet and counterattacked the wartime forces that tend to inflate prices and costs. In full page national ads, full-jowled No. 1 U. S. Rubberman Litchfield announced tire price cuts of as much as 12½%, in spite of a wartime increase of nearly 25% in the price of crude rubber (August 29, 16¼? a lb.: Oct. 27, 20½?). After "streamlining" plants and methods, costs were slashed to absorb September's rubber inflation as well as the rubber business' big complaints: higher wages & taxes...
...exaggeration to say that he assiduously courted Great Britain, both as representing the aristocracy and most successful of the Nordic races, and as constituting the only seriously dangerous obstacle to his own far-reaching plan of German domination in Europe. This is evident in Mein Kampf, and, in spite of what he regarded as the constant rebuffs which he received from the British side, he persisted in his endeavors up to the last moment. Geniuses are strange creatures, and Herr Hitler, among other paradoxes, is a mixture of long-headed calculation and violent and arrogant impulse provoked by resentment...
Remarkable is Concrete Man Turner, who looks more like a Groton headmaster than a building contractor, for his achievement in keeping his staff together in spite of the vicissitudes of the volatile U. S. construction industry. Including Vice President (for Philadelphia) H. C. Turner Jr., who has only ten years' worth of service stripes, 13 executives (average age: 52) of this 37-year-old company average 26½ years with the company. Down, the line, 25 superintendents average 17 years, 70 foremen 19 years. No small achievement is this in an industry which must count on starving three years...