Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...autocratic power of old Speaker Joe Cannon, 39 years ago. "Uncle Joe" Cannon had wielded his power through the Speaker's right to appoint all committees. Norris changed all that, but he hadn't succeeded in cleaning out all the old glory holes where a minority could defeat the will of a majority. Last week's showdown went even further toward outting authority where it belonged-in the majority of the House...
...last week which fairly reflected the feelings of G.O.P. Congressmen-raw, grey and chilly-a handful of Republican Senators gathered in a Senate committee room. They met with the conviction that the Republican leadership which had dominated the 80th Congress was largely responsible for the party's defeat. The man they had their angry eyes on was Robert A. Taft...
...clinic here will be McInnis's first official function since his appointment as baseball coach last October 19. McInnis comes to Cambridge after a session at Amherst in which he compiled a record of ten wins and only one loss--a 4 to 3 defeat by Yale's championship squad...
...like a race between Citation and a $1500 dollar plater at the Arena last night, as Holy Cross scintillating basketball team handed the varsity its fifth straight defeat, 64, to 48, before a near-capacity crowd of about 5,000. The Crusaders led at halftime...
Three of the five Crusaders who will play tonight, George Kaftan, Joe Mullaney, and Dermie O'Connell, will be starting against Harvard for the fourth straight season. They helped hand Wyndol Gray's NCAA team its only regulation defeat in 1945-46, flogged Saul Mariaschin's 1946-47 group 61-40, and outlasted George Hauptfuhrer & Co. last year...