Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of the fact that Senator Harrison got Bilbo a $6,000 job in Washington when that undersized politician was down & out of office, and in spite of favors he did Bilbo after his election to the Senate in 1934, "The Man" Bilbo renounced Mississippi's senior Senator to back Conner for Harrison's seat. Last week when President Roosevelt suddenly summoned Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee to Washington for a conference on taxes, the Mississippi campaign temporarily became a battle of governors: onetime Governor Conner and onetime Governor Bilbo v. Governor Hugh White and onetime...
Alumni of big Methodist DePauw University complain that in spite of its 1,300 students, its leafy campus in Greencastle, Ind. and its comfortable presidential house, DePauw's presidents consistently resign to become Methodist bishops. Of the six head men DePauw has elected since 1903, four hastily left it in the lurch as soon as Methodism's General Conference beckoned. Last of these was liberal, orotund G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam, newly installed Methodist Bishop of the Iowa and Nebraska area (TIME...
...spite of its name, Pacific Mutual was actually mutual (that is, wholly owned by its policyholders) in only one division. In this mutual division, insurance examiners fortnight ago found a surplus of $4,792,000. But the nonparticipating end of the business showed a whopping deficit of $22,350,000. Main reason for the deficiency was that the personal accident & health department had been losing money for years, was more than $23,000,000 in the red. Main reasons for the accident department's showing were low premiums and high monthly benefits in its noncancelable disability policies, under which...
...these two forms of trade-normally independent of each other within limits-have been rigidly interlocked by the Nazis' iron rule that Germany buys only where Germany sells and in substantially balancing amounts. Therefore last week Dr. Schacht was not simply cutting off Germany's nose to spite her face but, in complex fashion, was cutting ultimate U. S. exports to Germany when he abruptly cut German exports to the U. S. by canceling use of the trick marks which he originally devised to boost German exports...
...decidedly beautiful and not at all unduly prominent teeth. . . . Her voice is remarkably true and pure. . . . In Saw Francisco she sings Nearer, My God, To Thee most feelingly and reverentially. Is it possible that you would permit your reviewer to use your columns to vent personal animus and spite...