Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pump-priming" measure, the bill had been given the horrid name of a "poll-priming'' device, because of WTAdministrator Harry Hopkins' pointed comment on the Iowa primary election (see p. 16). Leader Barkley admitting Mr. Hopkins had been indiscreet, nevertheless marshaled his Administration cohorts to defeat every effort to attach penalties, however light, to political use of relief billions. New Mexico's Hatch, a Democrat, and Vermont's Austin, a Republican, each tried to prohibit WPA administrative employes from taking active part in elections. Each was voted down by a close margin, the first...
...fought in it, the Rising was sickening, "a revolt of poets and schoolmasters," inept, ill-planned, melodramatic, futile. It convinced him that next time there should be no sentimentality, no proclamations, no self-deception and no pity. But to Manus Considine, who had intended to be a priest, the defeat of the Rising and the execution of its leaders were an incentive to join the rebels. Kilfoyle tried to keep him out, said sentimentalists were...
...particularly gloomy during the fourth inning of a baseball game between Holy Cross and Harvard. In the course of this one semester the boys from Worcester scored nine runs with two out to make up the meat of their 13-5 defeat of the Crimson...
...pointed out that both Houses have already given approval to three of the main points, namely the executive assistants, the Department of Public Welfare, and the power of the President to rearrange agencies, Pettee placed part of the blame for the Bill's defeat on "the over-optimism which caused the Administration to insist on the whole Bill or nothing...
Concluding a mediocre season, the Yardling nine Saturday dropped an 8-3 decision to the Yale Freshmen at New Haven. It was the Samborski team's eleventh defeat in 18 starts...