Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russ, or Rusty Greenhood will finish his second year of Varsity competition at Rutgers this Friday. His defeat of Yale's Endweiss and Christner last year was said to be one of the turning points that enabled Harvard to win. This season, he has been defeated twice: by Gibson, of Navy, and by Endweiss. Howin winning both the high and low-board titles at the recent intercollegiates, in ever, he avenged both of these set-backs which both Endweiss and Gibson competed...
...hope at all of balancing the budget in 1939 is $5,300,000,000. Excision of a levy whose revenue even its supporters estimated at only $45,000,000 a year was therefore more significant as a political weathervane (pointing in the same direction as the defeat of the Wages and Hours Bill last December), than as a fiscal dilemma. Most reliable source of Federal income in an emergency is always liquor. Last week, having been assured by New York's John O'Connor that "you could not possibly spend more than 50? a gallon in making whiskey...
...political prognosticators the most important question of the moment is: how will the seemingly irreparable split between the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. affect labor's political power? Prime example of its adverse effect was the defeat of the C. I. O. slate in Detroit's municipal elections last year. The most revealing answer will come from the May primary election in Pennsylvania where, last fortnight, John L. Lewis took his political life in his hands by entering Lieut.-Governor Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, in the Democratic...
...blow to Beck's prestige was tempered by the size of Langlie's vote and the knowledge that A. F. of L. leaders would do their best to defeat Meyers. Last week, in the runoff election, 37-year-old Lawyer Langlie's votes jumped to 78,997. "Call me Vic" Meyers, carrying on a serious campaign, was able to poll 48,114 or 518 more than the sum of his own and Mayor Dore's primary votes, but that was not enough...
Although the Seattle election was a blow to the long-term political aspirations of labor as a whole, the C. I. O. was comforted by Beck's defeat and by the fact that it was left with a Mayor who would at least be neutral instead of its sworn enemy in labor's internecine war. Mayor-Elect Langlie specifically promised this neutrality but warned: "It's up to labor to clean its own house. However, labor will not be permitted to step on the toes of innocent persons in its various activities...