Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tennessee -a safety in the defeat of Senator George L. Berry, a questionable New Deal asset, by a "100% Roosevelt man," in a contest fought on local issues...
...very glad to support a similar resolution now." ¶ Cartoonist Norman (William Norman Ritchie) of the Boston Post, more blunt, drew a chortling Franklin Roosevelt unctuously declining a third-term cup of cocoa in the New Deal cafe (see cut). ¶ Recovering with a bounce from his primary defeat, Representative Maury Maverick of Texas wrote a piece for the Philadelphia Record. Excerpt: "Calling all progressives! Calling all liberals! Stop your telegrams telling me how sad it was that I got beat. . . . The job we have ahead of us now is not to let any more get beat...
...maneuver, and was elevated to the peerage as Lord Allenby of Megiddo. The old Biblical writers logically looked to Armageddon as the site of the world's final, cataclysmic battle, and predicted that there the armies of Gog-a popular representation of Antichrist-would meet crushing defeat...
...place on NLRB ballots. Said A. F. of L.'s practical editorialist: "Surely this [C. I. O. recognition] is . . . union development under Government patronage. Progressive legislation and practical democracy depend upon a united labor movement. Whatever groups or agencies give aid to insurgency within our movement defeat these purposes...
...Connell, who got national publicity by baiting Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City about the latter's suppression of C. I. O. (TIME, June 13), went around among miners, lumberjacks, smelter workers and farmers, declaring that Franklin Roosevelt had told him to "fight like hell to defeat Senator Wheeler's machine so he wouldn't be back...