Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiers, as they withdrew, gave bystanders dark scowls and muttered oaths, the Czech officers avoided meeting civilian eyes, discharged their bitter duty with compressed lips. Nazi folk of the Sudeten town of Cesky Krumlov were the first Germans to dishonor themselves by opening dastardly fire upon the retreating Czech soldiers' backs. These Sudetens were also the first to smash windows and pillage shops and homes owned by Czechs, Jews and non-Nazi Sudetens such as Communists, Socialists and Social Democrats. Such outrages were not typical but exceptional, according to latest dispatches. The German army entered those parts of Czechoslovakia...
...private utilitarian (Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi Power and Light Companies). In 1926 he bought Louisiana and Arkansas Ry. for $10,000,000, In February 1937, for a rumored $2,250,000 he picked up working control of K.C.S. from Paine, Webber & Co., which got control after a bitter fight with Leonor Loree. Since then Wall Street has been expecting a merger and last week Harvey Couch produced it. He announced that K.C.S. would issue 210,000 shares of common stock to exchange for stock...
...routine domestic disturb-ance," love songs and a few on cosmic subjects which he says he included only to keep his franchise. His dislikes-inverted sentences in TIME, the works of Walter B. Pitkin, publicity, perfume and economic theory-stir up Poet White only briefly, and the only really bitter work in his collection is addressed to Vittorio Mussolini, inspired by Vittorio's description of his "exceptionally good fun" bombing Ethiopians. Of TIME Poet White complains...
...Progressive candidacy of Representative Thomas Amlie for the Senate. Having earmarked the Senate seat for his faithful Lieutenant Governor Herman Ekern, the Governor supported Mr. Ekern against Mr. Amlie, although he tactfully refrained from making any speeches. Candidate Ekern trounced Candidate Amlie last week after a bitter Progressive primary, in which Amlie also had the support of Milwaukee's Socialist Mayor Daniel Hoan. This raised the possibility that when Progressive Ekern brings the La Follette fight on the New Deal into the open against Democratic Senator F. Ryan Duffy in November, the Federation and Governor La Follette may fight...
...further revealed that if the investigating committee's suggestions are put into effect the Alumni Trustee will have the right to remove from office any member of the "Dartmouth's" staff at any time. This proposal, bringing up as it does a clear issue of University censorship, has aroused bitter opposition from undergraduate sources...