Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a fellow gets beaten in a race, he is a mighty poor loser if he attempts in any way to explain his defeat. When a fellow has not been in a race, however, it seems legitimate to call that fact to the attention of those who seem to believe that someone else beat...
Energetic Frank Knox spent election night bustling about his Chicago Daily News office, getting out extras conceding his defeat. One consolation to the booming Colonel as he settled back into publishing harness and competition with Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick's Tribune was Chicago's decision at the polls to limit its McCormick-fostered daylight saving time to summer only (see p. 26). This return restored to the News the normal advantage of a Midwestern evening paper over its morning rival on Washington news and final New York stock quotations...
...Delaware, Daniel 0. Hastings, the New Deal's most bitter Senate critic and head of the Republican Senatorial Committee whose particular job was to win Senate seats throughout the U. S., went down to defeat, partly as the result of a split which resulted in two Republican tickets appearing on the ballot. His seat was won by Democrat James Hurd Hughes, snow-haired, 69-year-oldster who has dabbled most of life in politics and is a mild supporter of the New Deal. Next Republican rubbed out was Senator W. Warren Barbour, big, rich, kinky-haired onetime amateur prizefighter...
Massachusetts. A loser himself, Democratic Boss James Michael Curley had the consolation of seeing State Treasurer Charles Francis Hurley defeat Republican John W. Haigis to succeed Curley as Governor. Strapping, vigorous, 42-year-old Governor-elect Hurley, who likes boating and biography, was in 1930 the first Democrat to be elected State Treasurer in 19 years, went on to become the only man ever chosen thrice for that office...
...tenth and each subsequent store. Gasoline stations and beauty parlors were exempted, but other chain stores, led by Safeway with 1,300 stores, got the help of Adman Don Francisco of Lord & Thomas (who two years ago waged a successful fight to defeat Upton Sinclair for Governor) and launched a desperate campaign to defeat the tax. Listing chain stores as paying almost $7,000,000 a year in taxes, paying almost $9,000,000 in rent, saving California consumers $14,000,000 a year by underselling independents 10%, purchasing $250,000,000 a year of California fruit and other products...