Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here is the final rampart on which Mr. Lippmann must defeat his distention between the New Deal overhead control and liberalism's social control--i.e. commissions at this point. He answers that the officials who inspect, prosecute, and administer must be regarded as exercising merely certain rights and duties instead of possessing the attributes of majesty. When one remembers that the New Deal's Commissions act only under the mandate of Congressional statutes and the threat of judicial review, Mr. Lippmann's collapse seems miserably final and complete...
Criticizing the United States for its failure to support those fighting for democracy, Ralph Bates, English novelist and Spanish volunteer, last night gave a graphic account of the spirit which has inflamed loyalist Spain, and predicted Franco's defeat, despite Italian and German support...
...last March, when he toppled football Captain Charlie Toll of Princeton who had a 45 pound advantage. Short, stocky he has a good chance to gain Intercollegiate laurels in his last season here, if he can throw Pickett of the Elis who in March handed him his only defeat...
...short although many of the proposals of the President are as worthy of stinging defeat as ever, it appears likely that his mental state is calmer and more conciliatory, quieted perhaps by the start of a depression which may well develop into one fully as fearful as the depression which first elected Mr. Roosevelt. But vastly more important than the President attitude is the attitude of Congress, and if the beginning of the special session is any barometer, the fears of business men, which have been responsible for this "second depression," should be largely groundless...
...freedom, too exalted by his recent conversion to do more than burble: "I want to be a good man, to fit into things ... get a little closer to people. ..." The rest of the book is the story of his efforts to live up to his resolutions, and his eventual defeat...