Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven Senators who at the close of the last session could claim the distinction of having occupied their seats before the U. S. entered the World War, most were again to be in their accustomed places. One, however, was certain to be conspicuous in absence. Neither Death nor defeat at the polls had accounted for him. Senator George William Norris of Nebraska was ''unavoidably detained...
...Kostrellos '37 leads the 125-pounders with a record of but one defeat in Varsity competition. Undefeated as a Yardling mittman, Kostrellos boxed in the 115-pound rank two years ago. Bill Garrett is another 125 man but lacks the experience of his competitor...
...impression not only of being a good loser but of being a fine fellow. Publicly and privately those who had been far from pro-Landon during the campaign loudly spoke their admiration of him. Said Scripps-Howard's Raymond Clapper, "A man who has taken both triumph and defeat in his stride . . . without suffering the slightest noticeable indigestion." Said the New York Times'?, Arthur Krock, "He captivated all of Washington...
What Glenn Frank thought of Phil La Follette was, and has remained, his secret. Wiseacres gossiped that Phil was hurt when, after his defeat in 1932, Glenn Frank seemed to get along just as well with Democratic Governor Albert G. Schmedeman. To a Wisconsin Progressive, Republicans and Democrats are alike "reactionaries." In 1933 Mr. & Mrs. Frank called on Mr. & Mrs. La Follette, who then lived right across the street. Their courtesy was not returned. Last year at a Lincoln Day Republican rally in Chicago, ambitious President Frank, who has been sporadically mentioned as Presidential timber, made his first big blunder...
Elated but urbane, the Guild's shrewd Chairman Maurice Rentner purred: "Surely the stores in question should be convinced by this time that our plan contains many beneficial things. . . . [It] would be most regrettable if these court proceedings were to be regarded as containing an element of defeat for anyone...