Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under those circumstances, what would you expect the President, as the lead er and spokesman of his party to do? ... He is merely saying ... 'If you be lieve in the Administration, do not send these men back.' ... I know the President. . . . Adulation has not made him arrogant, defeat has not made him timid. What we have to decide is whether ... we want to abdicate the stronghold of Democracy or to fight for it. And I think we, too, have 'only just begun to fight...
...press a lecture on political morality. It was "immoral," he said, for some 20,000 Republicans in Idaho to have voted in the Democratic primary to nominate Representative D. Worth Clark over New Dealish Senator James P. Pope (TIME, Aug. 22). Such crossing of party lines, he said, defeated the purpose of the primary system, because members of one party could pick puny opponents for their own party's candidates to beat. As in Idaho, it would be "immoral" for Republicans in Maryland to help his enemy Senator Tydings defeat his friend Representative Lewis;-* and for Republicans in Georgia...
Chicago -- Washington's Redskins, world professional champions, tonight were 2 to 1 favorites to defeat the pick of 1937 college elevens in the fifth annual charity football game under the floodlights in Soldiers Field...
...Minnesota, National Chairman Farley warned Democrats not to play games with Minnesota's Republicans just to beat the Farmer-Laborites: "Any help you give the Republicans . . . in 1938 will help defeat the Democrat party in 1940." Democratic Representative Elmer J. Ryan promptly endorsed his former law partner, Harold E. Stassen, Republican nominee for Governor, instead of Thomas Gallagher, the Democratic candidate. Said he: "If the National Administration were concerned about the strength of the Democratic party in Minnesota, the time to show that concern was two years ago, when the Democratic candidates for Governor and Senator were withdrawn...
...most furious anti-Czechoslovak campaign thus far; Herr Hitler mobilized 1,000,000 men along the eastern frontiers of Germany; and the Czechoslovak Reserve Officers' Association led Prague patriotic groups last week in demanding that the Government call on Czechoslovaks to fight and if necessary suffer bloody defeat, rather than tamely yield even a fraction of the nation's sovereignty...