Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Actually the greatest asset of unemployment insurance rests in the blanket protection it affords to both employer and employee. The proposed plan, now being formulated in several states, wherein the employers are generously allowed to contribute to the fund and the employees to stand cheering on the sidelines, would defeat the whole purpose of the bill both in cooperation and spirit...
...face the Senate vote was a smashing rebuff to President Roosevelt, the second major Congressional defeat of his Administration. But had the President really been heart & soul behind the Court? The wisest answer seemed to be: No. A Court plank had been in his party's platform. It offered an easy means of bolstering his weak foreign record. As much as anything else, defeat had been due to careless White House strategy. Because the President was not ready with his Senate program, opposition to the World Court had had two full weeks to marshal its forces...
...defeat of the Court various interested parties reacted publicly as follows...
...closest race was in the 220-yard free style swim in which Wallace E. Howell '36 splashed up from behind to win by a hand from John J. Colony '37. In the 50-yard free style race Harvard suffered its only defeat when A. R. Bourne of McGill nosed out Bob Haskett '37 in the last ten yards. By doubling its lead in every lap, Harvard easily won the 400-yard relay by over half a length...
Imbued with confidence after the crushing defeat they administered to the Big Green five here Wednesday, the Crimson cagers have a fighting chance to overcome Captain Johnny Grebauskas' orange and black quintet. Captain Dick Boys is again playing at forward, as Fesler starts the same five that played without a substitution against Dartmouth...