Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defense after killing someone. Shortly afterwards, back came the $200 with a note: "Dear Teddy: I am returning the money I borrowed to help at my trial. We didn't need to have no trial, as we elected our district attorney." Then Mr. Roosevelt changed. After his defeat at the Chicago convention in 1912, "it was plain to those who knew Mr. Roosevelt and watched him that the part played by Elihu Root hurt him deeply. . . . Late at night, when the last of his advisers had left him, Mr. Roosevelt was in a state of excitement such...
Last week Perfecto E. Laguio, M. A., Yale 1926, saw in the picture evidence of subtle propaganda designed to defeat the move for Philippine independence. Said he, at Manila: "It is a fake which was exposed 14 years ago. How it has been resurrected I do not know, nor do I know whether the little paper was aware that it was a fake. Somebody who hates the Philippine Islands has produced it in order to persuade Americans that Philippines are incapable of governing themselves...
...public opinion will brush aside third-term objections." Patrick E. Crowley, president of the New York Central Lines, who informed Mr. Coolidge that "the railroad business is good." Ralph H. Cameron, senator from Arizona, who later told the press: "Speaking for myself, I am certain that no one can defeat President Coolidge ... if he should decide to run." Frank W. Stearns, who knows the Boston department store business, who is perhaps Mr. Coolidge's closest friend, came to visit indefinitely, to cheer the President, to fish. ¶ Official Secretary Everett Sanders was ill, Confidential Secretary Edward T. Clark...
...Iowa perhaps prefers radicals. Mr. Cummins was growing old and peaceful, so Smith Wildman Brookhart was chosen to succeed him as Republican Senatorial candidate this year. A faint flicker of the joys of old age must have come to Senator Cummins when he read the news of his defeat, eyes were strained from studying long documents, his face was lined, his hair was white; he was 76-but now he would retire to the quiet home of his two spinster sisters, sleep long and sound, muse over his glorious days, write his autobiography. One evening last week he dined with...
...President arose later, breakfasted amply, telephoned to Loon Lake (30 miles from White Pine Camp), invited Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio to come over and spend the night. Senator Fess (whose farm relief bill was recently overwhelmingly defeated in Congress) predicted that Senator Willis, Republican Ohio Senatorial nominee, would defeat Atlee Pomerene, Democratic aspirant to the Senate. Next morning Mrs. Coolidge drove with Senator Fess back to Loon Lake...