Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inclusive industrial basis, crafts may not chisel out skilled segments and bargain apart from the whole. As the principal sufferer from this literal application of the Wagner Act, A.F. of L. is doing all it can to halt the practice. By no means certain that it can defeat Donald Smith's confirmation, A.F. of L. has excellent precedent for bringing corrective pressure. Franklin Roosevelt did as much to the U. S. Supreme Court, won his point although his Court plan lost...
...Hope the aviator Magnin explains that, while no revolutionist, he is drawn more closely to revolutionists when they suffer defeat. The observation is true of Malraux himself. At odds with the Communists after 1927, embodying severe criticisms of Comintern policy and tactics in Man's Fate and championing Trotsky, he swung around after Hitler seized power in Germany, wrote an anti-fascist novel, Days of Wrath, has been roundly denounced by Trotsky as a Stalinist agent. Learning to fly in 1934, he flew with his instructor over the Arabian Desert, discovered a ruined city which he said...
While the Varsity defeated Brown at home, the Yardling booters inflicted a 4 to 1 defeat on the Worcester Academy soccer team up at Worcester last Saturday afternoon...
...saddest part of this episode is that these contributions are being used in a desperate effort to defeat a charter which, if adopted, would bring greater security and better working conditions for every employee of the City...
...Baton Rouge, Louisiana State and Vanderbilt, two of the South's strongest powerhouses, held one another scoreless until almost the last minute. Then the home team suddenly set off fireworks. Result: Vanderbilt's first defeat of the season...