Word: beaten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mules. Half a dozen Democrats were on their feet. What did U.S. voters mean in the last election if they did not mean the Taft-Hartley Act should be repealed? Northern Democrats warned that 103 members who voted for the act in the spring of 1947 had been beaten at the November 1948 polls...
...years of the Taft-Hartley Act, Congress was trying to decide whether the U.S. should try some compromise between the two-and if there were compromises, how far they should go either way. On no other piece of legislation was Harry Truman staking so much of his political prestige. Beaten in the Senate on his civil rights program, he wanted desperately to win his labor bill...
...measure. Republicans stood as a man to support this demand, then filed down the aisle to be counted against the bill. Thus, angry and embarrassed Administration leaders were forced to make a public record of the fact that out & out reinstatement of labor's cherished Wagner Act was beaten by the House by an overwhelming 275 to 37 vote...
...MacArthur's task in Japan. But one fact is driving itself home; while the U.S. labors on the dam that contains Communism in Europe, the Red tide has risen mightily in Asia and now threatens to engulf half the world's people. In all Asia, tiny, beaten Japan is the one place where the U.S. still has a firm foothold, where it still has a chance to redeem the West's sorry record of failure and confusion in the East...
...rest of the team is still in a state of flux. Al Switzer and Charlie Cabot have come back into the competition for first base and shortstop, after being beaten out by Tim Wise and Henry Young early in the season...