Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed several hundred private bills under a special "unanimous consent" agreement by which three adverse votes could defeat any measure...
...operative marketing in the Department of Agriculture, a bill designed to aid farmers in forming and operating co-operative enterprises. In the Senate with an election coming on, and with the dissatisfaction registered by the farmers two weeks ago by the nomination of onetime Senator Brookhart and the defeat of Senator Cummins, there were many Senators who felt impelled to take up the Haugen bill to satisfy the farmers...
Senator Moses took an informal poll, which indicated that there would be 52 votes against the Haugen bill in the Senate, enough to defeat it. But that did not still the disturbance. The Senators from the northeastern states were against it, and Senator Carter Glass of Virginia brought most of the southern Democrats into line against it. The advocates of the bill were led by Senator McNary of Oregon and Senator Gooding of Idaho. They included one Southerner, Senator Simmons of North Carolina, and such others as Steck of Iowa, McMaster of South Dakota, Watson of Indiana and, strangely enough...
Last week a revived prohibition party nominated one Franklin W. Cristman, a Methodist banker and lawyer, in hope of taking enough votes away from Wadsworth in Dry regions to defeat...
With a record marred by only one defeat the Crimson netmen will go to Haverford with high hopes of being awarded a "win" on the International Trophy...