Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swatow. Japan's victory-of-the-week over China was at the treaty port of Swatow, 180 miles north of Hong Kong. Here Japan also suffered a minor diplomatic defeat from western nations. Once a city of 178,000, Swatow had been bombed by Japanese planes daily for the last ten weeks. All electric lights had been cut off, the waterworks were out of order, the municipal buildings were all destroyed. By day Swatow was a deserted city, but at night, when no bombers came, it hummed with shipping activity. To the port came British, French, U. S., Scandinavian...
...Britain's eyes are everywhere. The Foreign Office protested. Hurriedly France sent seaplanes which dropped orders to desist. Painter Marin-Marie and 40 Breton fishermen took their defeat in good part, drank a glass of champagne, sang the Marseillaise, desisted...
That victory for either side in such an intra-Labor war is defeat for both sides, G. M.'s President William S. Knudsen promptly demonstrated. "The corporation is and at all times has been prepared to bargain with duly authorized representatives of the employes," said the big motor-maker who was the first to sign up with C. I. O.'s union in 1937. "What it cannot do is to decide quarrels as between contending factions." In eleven plants, where both C. I. O. and Martin claim jurisdiction, G. M. will deal with neither. In 48, whether...
Falling behind rapidly after holding the favored Elis to a 4 to 4 halftime tie, the Crimson polo quartet went down to a 12 to 5 defeat and lost the national intercollegiate championship which it won last year...
...Wednesday the Crimson nine will have leaped most of the final examination barriers and should be ready to meet the challenge of a strong Brown team on Soldiers Field. In the first meeting of the two schools, the Bruins handed Harvard a neat 4 to 0 defeat...