Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese troops, consternation reigned last week. Clarioned Suiyan's Chinese Governor General Fu Tso-yi: "We shall countenance no threat to the integrity of this province!" He mobilized and reviewed the whole of Suiyan's military might "in tribute to Chinese soldiers slain in the 1936 defeat of the Mongol horde." To Suiyan's rebuke, China's Nanking Government added another. Declared Wang Ching-wei, chairman of the Kuomintang (National Revolutionary Party) and onetime Foreign Minister: "Nanking is fully determined to support Suiyan against revolutionary movements...
...Freshman trio with Gay Dillingham playing No. 1, John Lewis, No. 2, and Warwick Stabler at back will play Battery A in the finals of the C League Tournament at the Commonwealth Armory, Saturday March 27. The team has suffered but one defeat being beaten by Yale by a score...
Surprise of the afternoon came in the lightweight division when through a complete superiority of technique Hardy Phippen '39 overcame the advantage of Edward T. Barker '37 by pinning him in 3:16. Arthur W. Page, unbeaten Freshman of the 135-pound class, went down to defeat when Edwin C. Ihrig 3L won by a referee's decision...
Back at Syracuse, the happy Harvard mentor had a good record piled up, but there was one team he always lost to--Yale. Kiphuth was coaching the Elis then, too, so that accounts still further for the joy with which his defeat was greeted. When Ulen came to Harvard, he realized his chances of licking Kiphuth were just so much greater here because of the traditional rivalry between the Crimson and the Blue. Never did this rivalry reach a higher point than it did as Ulen at last got his heart's desire...
...waiting. Now comes his bid for the Mayorality--a stunning disappointment to the men and women who have worked for years to drive him out of public life. It must also be a lesson in practical politics, teaching that a machine is not necessarily beaten by one defeat at the polls. Oratory and newspaper articles do not touch the secret sources of the voting strength of a man like Curley, and only by an attack on his influence in the back wards will the career of King James be halted. Two ways are open to the people of Boston...