Word: bitters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Byrnes called the White House, formally informed President Roosevelt that he was the Democratic nominee. All day in Washington the White House remained silent except for a statement that the President would address the Convention after a Vice-Presidential nominee had been selected. But as the night session grew bitter, as boos greeted Henry Wallace as the President's choice for a running mate, as balloting dragged on toward midnight, another word was given-that the speech would be canceled or postponed if Wallace lost the first ballot...
...over the re-election of a small group of Manhattan executives (including Vice President Milton Kaufman, Secretary & Treasurer Victor Pasche, both paid officials, and Vice President Morris Watson, paid by C. I. O. as a union organizer) who actually run the Guild. Back of this factional fight was a bitter controversy...
...inflexible Mr. Hoover mushmouthed his delivery; the clear, hot words of his finest address got lost (as always) deep in his bulldog chops. He stood there awkwardly, a near-great man whose fate has been to cast his mother-of-pearl words before mobs who, whether friendly or bitter, always yell "Louder!" No honest Republican denied to himself that the convention until now had laid the biggest egg since...
...this the Bordeaux Government be came sensationally bitter. Minister of In formation Jean Prouvost read a statement in English: "We regret that certain mem bers of the British Government criticize us unjustly. We wish our English friends to respect our sadness and examine their own conscience." Before the war, asserted M. Prouvost, Britain had promised to send over 26 divisions; but when the test came, France kept men 48 years old under arms while Britain failed to mobilize 28-year-olds. Finally the French Minister went so far as to lump the Ally with the Enemy: "We ask [England...
Across a trial table in Cleveland's Common Pleas Court last week two aging tycoons, once inseparable friends, faced each other in bitter litigation. Plaintiff was tiny (5 ft. 3) Frank A. Seiberling, board chairman of Seiberling Rubber Co.. keen and dapper despite his 80 years. On the other side was mystic, eccentric, 275-lb. Edgar B. Davis, 66, oil & rubber man, who has made and spent four fortunes, given away some $6,000,000 to charity and friends because he believed his money "came from the good God himself...