Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeking to rid his party of such obstructionists. And a Senator who voted with George was Iowa's Guy Gillette, another purge-marked man. Mr. Gillette denied that his motive now was revenge for 1938, but that made Franklin Roosevelt feel no better about his worst defeat of all this session. He conferred with Cordell Hull about what they should do next...
...Chairman Key Pittman of the Foreign Relations Committee followed up the Administration's defeat by asking Secretary...
...attempt to make sense of the U. S. desire for peace. The bill sponsored in the House of Representatives by the Administration called for repeal of the mandatory embargo on arms exports. But isolationist Congressmen amended it to read very much like the 1935-36 Nye legislation. This palpable defeat for Roosevelt and Hull was hailed by verbal fireworks in Rome and Berlin. Fascist glee provoked a tart "I-told-you-so" from the President, who promptly called upon the Senate to reverse the House...
...your information, the people of the upper section of South Carolina whom you refer to as being "lowborn upstate farmers and mill hands" are descendants of those great patriots who gathered at Kings Mountain to defeat the British Army. This victory led to Cornwallis' ultimate defeat. South Carolina has had no immigrants to speak of and we can boast that the people of our State are all of pioneer American stock that has made America what...
...wham-all through the night and all through the day. Though six out of ten balls landed on the green (131 yards away), he failed to get another ace in 2,289 more attempts. After he had lifted his leaden arms for the 3,094th time, Scoffer Wagner admitted defeat. "After you hit the green, I guess it's just luck," he sighed-discovering by painful experience what most golfers have long known...