Word: defeat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt last week suffered the worst defeat that he has met since entering the White House. Defeat could hardly have stung so much even on that November morning 17 years ago when he awoke to find that nearly two Americans out of three preferred Calvin Coolidge to Franklin Roosevelt for Vice President-or at least Harding to Cox for President. This stung partly because he was now used to victory, partly because ill-advised advisers had kept him, to the last, confident of victory. Even when Vice President Garner convinced him that his Court Bill was beaten, he expected...
...Tokyo the younger, more fanatic school of Japanese militarists fumed last week that their Empire ought to defeat Soviet Russia first, objected that the whole concept of dealing with Nanking before Moscow has been settled is strategically and politically unsound. This Japanese younger school sees Stalin as ultimately behind Chiang and wants to make an end of half measures, but Japanese "Liberals" like the Premier see more wisdom in taking any number of delicate bites at the Chinese cherry. If now Generalissimo Chiang, should really hurl China's whole force against Japan, with Russian cheers behind him, the bedseat...
...soft speech at the hearing Mayor Wilson permitted the City Council to withdraw the ordinance, promised to veto it if it were ever submitted to him again. This apparently unqualified defeat was not so complete as it appeared. The Council had arranged a compromise whereby the insurance companies will accept a 2% tax on all premiums paid by policyholders living in Philadelphia. Penn Mutual will thereby pay about $100,000 annually. To the mayor this week was to go the honor of announcing this agreement...
James Smith settled down to farming, raising a family. He was not surprised when the Indians went on the warpath again. They were receiving more guns from British traders than they had from the French, whose military defeats amounted to no more than the defeat of a business competitor. Philadelphia arms merchants now solved the difficulty of selling their wares by stirring the patriotic fervor of church congregations to the point where they put up the cash for guns to arm the settlers. Smith raised a white war party of his own, outfitted them with breechclouts, knives, tomahawks; prescribed blackened...
...score 2 matches all by beating Grant 7-5, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; and Germany's last chance was that von Cramm, a courtly green-eyed Berliner, who does little but play tennis, dance and drink champagne, would be able to reverse his straight-set defeat by Budge in the All-England final (TIME, July 12). Von Cramm this time got the first two sets (8-6. 7-5), but Budge got the match that put the U. S. in the challenge round against Great Britain...