Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Jeannette Rankin, now legislative Secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War, was the first opponent of the Big Navy bill heard by the Committee. The N. C. P. W. takes in about $150,000 a year, spends some of it trying to defeat "strong defense" advocates for Congress, including the Committee's Chairman Carl Vinson, who introduced the Big Navy bill. Said Secretary Rankin: "It is argued that the proposed increases are for defense but there is no assurance as to what the Government contemplates defending. . . . We maintain that a wholly abnormal naval building...
...stop off in Indianapolis February 19. Two things Boss McNutt expects his lieutenants, Governor M. Clifford Townsend and Senator Sherman Minton, to have well in hand when he arrives are: 1) the boom for Paul V. McNutt for President of the U. S. in 1940, and 2) the defeat of Senator Frederick Van Nuys for party nominee at the-State convention in June...
With a week of hard training behind after their humiliating defeat by Penn last Saturday, Varsity matmen face a definitely mediocre Navy octet at Annapolis today...
With its widely-heralded spelling contest a flop, the Lampoon editors retired into the inner depths of their pie-shaped building last night after a humiliating 23-2 defeat at the hands of the Wellesley newspaperwomen...
...know I can lick 'em," cried DePinto as he took his place, his arms laden with the spheres that were to tell the tale of victory or defeat for Harvard. He sent his first ball spinning down the alley and it scattered the candle pins for a perfect strike. He took another shot, and again all the pins were felled, and so it went until his total had sky-rocketed to 149, leaving the Crimson sphere-slingers with their 1686 aggregate score...