Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt's genuine surprise, his man won. After seeing his three other prime Purge efforts defeated in Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland, he had predicted that disobedient Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee would defeat obedient, one-legged James H. Fay by 500 votes. It was just the other way around: Mr. Fay won by 553 votes out of 16,000 cast...
...nominee in the Gashouse district by majority of nearly 1,000 votes (out of 4,900 cast) over Allen Welsh Dulles, a young lawyer of considerable polish and attainments, but no political experience. Not for generations has this G.O.P. nomination been considered worth the red fire to illuminate its defeat, but with a Tammany Irishman carrying it, with perhaps 8,000 anti-Roosevelt Democrats swinging in behind the Republican voters, the Gashouse district may well retain its Representative with only a change in his party label...
Authorities of the University called the present concession a "satisfactory adjustment" and revealed that they had immediately recognized the "inside" union when the A. F. of L. retreated after its defeat at the polls last spring...
...words used privately by the President in making up to Senator George after publicly asking for his defeat at Barnesville (TIME...
Cambridge's own special police officer, Thomas H. Leary, who went on a vacation and returned to find himself unwillingly put up for the Democratic state convention, waged quite a campaign to defeat himself...