Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drastic anti-lynching bill sponsored by New York's Joseph A. Gavagan, southern members will have to seek other bedfellows. Negro Arthur Mitchell, whose bill provided only for the prosecution of law officers who allowed prisoners to be taken away from them and lynched, announced after his defeat that he would support the Gavagan bill, which provides for Federal prosecution of members of lynch mobs as well as officers...
Lewis Cautions. With this temper among men, it was natural that many should grumble that the Chrysler settlement was a defeat for labor. It was a defeat, however, not so much for Leader Lewis as for an ill-advised strike spirit in the plants which had forced his hand. Night after the settlement he addressed a crowd of 25,000 unionists jamming Detroit's State Fair Coliseum and made it plain that it was time for hotheads to give up blundering into strikes for which their responsible leaders were not ready. First, however, his aides warmed up the crowd...
...last named men missed the Boston University defeat Wednesday because of examinations...
...Leahy pitched in very good form for the visitors, while his teammates backed him up with some well placed hits. The net result was a 9-7 defeat handed the Varsity baseball team in its opener against Boston University here yesterday...
Lassiter, who comes from Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated from Yale in 1934 and was captain of the football team in his senior year. The 19-6 defeat which the Crimson imposed upon the Eli eleven of that year was Harvard's last victory over the Blue...