Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buried deep in the rubble of Republican defeat lay the causes of Democratic victory-a victory which will shape U.S. policies and politics for the next two years. The causes and effects of Election Year...
...shook his head and cried again: "Those stupid Republican-businessmen." Echoed Ohio's Republican State Chairman Ray Bliss after seeing his state ticket swamped by Ohio's landslide against right-to-work: "During the past year I repeatedly warned the proponents of this issue that this defeat would be the possible consequence. They chose to ignore my warnings...
...year Brown rolled up its highest total of the entire series, soundly thrashing the varsity, 33 to 6. The Crimson, on the other hand, registered its largest score of the series in the very first encounter. It came in 1893, when Brown went down to a sorrowful 58-0 defeat...
Notable Failures. Admitting defeat within four hours after the Eastern polling places had closed, Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn grimly promised that the campaign for the 1960 elections would "begin on November 5, 1958." From the Republican standpoint, it would have to. The 1958 elections proved that party organization work is a fulltime job, that last-minute campaign efforts are not enough. President Eisenhower, entering the campaign in its last weeks, notably failed-as he had failed in 1954-to reverse the Democratic trends in California, West Virginia, Kansas, Iowa and Colorado (and Ike's own Pennsylvania Congressman, Republican...
...pseudonym Middleton Kiefer on the front, on the back helpfully lifts the disguise: the author is a committee, Harry Middleton and Warren Kiefer, onetime P.R. men for the drug firm Chas. Pfizer & Co. Writing at double strength, they achieve one of the most moving scenes of nobility in defeat since The Song of Roland. Pressagent Joe Logan has corrupted a war hero and seduced his fiancee while boosting a dangerous new tranquilizer; he is about to ditch his boss as a Senate committee begins to ask unpleasant questions. But the sight of his employer cruelly beset by Senators...