Word: beating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he fought and beat Governor Laffoon's sales tax, Laffoon got a bill through stripping the Lieutenant Governor of his powers, then rammed the sales tax through. Happy seized upon it as a prime issue of his campaign for Governor...
...between the two leading candidates. His man. Thomas Rhea, won the first round but Happy won the runoff, then threw himself into an election campaign that took him into every Kentucky hamlet from Big Sandy to Mills Point. Aided by Senator Barkley and Franklin Roosevelt's prestige, he beat Judge King Swope, Republican, by 96.000 votes. Then he squared off at Frankfort to bring about the reforms he had promised...
...years ago Representative Allen T. Treadway of Massachusetts, Republican 13-termer, beat Author Owen (The Var mint) Johnson of Stockbridge, Mass, who ran against him as a New Dealer. Last week, Author Johnson announced he was out again for Congress. Mr. Treadway, 70, said he would run again...
Last week the British learned that the Fakir had made his headquarters in a hillside cave. Bombers roared ahead and the British troops closed in. The Fakir and his tribesmen took up positions behind boulder barricades and for two days beat back British attacks. One British captain, six soldiers were killed before the Fakir and his followers had fled again...
Howard Robard Hughes's flight around the Temperate Zone (see pp. 36, 50) last week had every managing editor poised for a beat on his local rivals. Day of the fliers' return to the U. S., "Cissie" Patterson's sprightly Washington Times appeared on the streets with a four-column, front-page picture purporting to show the plane on the landing field in Minneapolis. Same day, in its final edition, the Times crowed that it had beaten its competitors to the street by 27 minutes with the story of Hughes's landing in New York...