Word: defaulted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eliminated as a candidate. He lost Ohio almost 2-to-1 to Favorite Son Robert A. Taft, and last week he lost New Jersey to Governor Landon by 4-to-1. These two losses outbalanced a half-victory in Wisconsin, a moral victory in Illinois and four victories by default in other states...
...washed his hands of Alberta's de- fault, observing: "If Social Credit is sound and good, it will prevail. But I don't know what Social Credit is. I may be dense." That was the way Alberta's bondholders felt when, on the heels of the default, Premier Aberhart rushed through its first two readings a bill enabling his government to convert its entire $160,000,000 indebtedness into a non-maturing stock issue paying 2½% interest. Best financial thought on this maneuver considered it a newfangled way to scare investors silly, then offer to refinance...
Left boxing with the shadows of his rivals. Senator Borah made their failure to fight his second issue. Scathingly he cried in Chicago: "In this state the primary would have gone by default had it not been for the fact that I had the temerity to come in here and file, and I am going to give you an opportunity to exercise the blessed privilege of helping to select the nominee for the Presidency upon the Republican ticket...
...primaries to prevent the naming of a favorite son. who would be used to deliver Ohio's convention vote to a boss-picked, Old-Guard candidate. Last week Ohio Republicans scurried about to find a rival candidate to prevent the Ohio delegation from going to the Idahoan by default. Few avowed candidates wanted to risk a possible defeat in Ohio at the Senator's hands...
...sloppy playing by both teams. The Elephant cagers displayed a new power in their victory over the Dudley quintet, their team work clicking better than it has all year. Winthrop was badly outclassed in their game with the Gold Coasters, champions for the first half year. Dunster's default, it is believed, was largely influenced by the defeat they suffered at the hands of the Commuters in their debut on the courts last Tuesday...