Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Senator Irving M. Ives: "The defeat of the Republicans can be ascribed to . . . the inability of the 80th Congress to get together on a forward-looking, liberal program ... We are moving forward in this country. We are not static. Unless a political party recognizes that fact . . . that political party is not going to get very...
...Senator George D. Aiken: "The Old Guard is a self-perpetuating board of trustees who would rather see the party go down to defeat than give up control of the machinery ... I had hoped that Dewey would get in and be able to renovate the party. But now we'll have to do our own housecleaning if we are ever to elect a Republican President...
...Gideon who watched his army melt away. On election night, Henry Wallace listened to the returns in his office, while party workers stamped and whirled in a square dance downstairs. When the networks gave him time for a three-minute talk (which listeners expected to be his admission of defeat), Wallace cried: "The cup of iniquity of both the old parties will overflow and one or the other of the old parties will disappear." He exhorted his workers: "This crusade is going ahead with renewed vigor...
...T.R.B.* in the New Republic, Nov. 8: "The G.O.P. victory in 1946 reduced the riddle of 1948 pretty largely to 'How much?' rather than 'By whom?' . . . Question asked -us most frequently is 'Does he know it?' referring to Truman's impending defeat; kind-hearted America felt grieved at what she was doing, like disappointing a child at Christmas: it must have made many Truman votes...
...Gaulle can bring recovery back to France. His advent to power will only mean a further split in that country, and in Europe. The West must place its hopes with the socialist moderates who now hold shaky authority, and recognize that a de Gaulle government will be a damaging defeat for the free world...