Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...backed up in the midst of the controversy by a letter from the Ex-Servicemen's Anti-Bonus League suggesting that the Legion coöperate with it in a poll of the great bulk of veterans to see whether they really favored a bonus. The final defeat of the anti-bonus faction was as inevitable as complete. The National Commander announced his intention of plunging immediately into the Legion's fight for a bonus...
...very inferior issue that cannot be put to political purposes over a period of years. Prohibition is not such. Governor Pinchot, whose head hives a very busy Presidential bee, is fully aware of this fact. Being a Republican, if he wants to be President in 1925 he must defeat Calvin Coolidge for the nomination in the next Republican National Convention. To defeat Mr. Coolidge he must have an issue, and with the President's tenacious silence an issue is difficult to find. But Mr. Pinchot is resourceful...
Early in November, 1903, a crowd of 25,000 people watched a Dartmouth football team defeat Harvard 11-0 in the first game ever played in the Harvard stadium. This afternoon, 20 years later, 53,000 people will jam the stadium to see the two colleges fight out the anniversary of that game...
...enthusiasm in regard to the coming game has been growing fast during the last few days and the entire student body is eager to get revenge for last year's 3-12 defeat. Misgivings in regard to the Dartmouth team have entirely vanished and the undergraduates are confident it will be much more powerful in the Stadium on Saturday than it proved to be last year...
...other matches of interest were Weisman's defeat of Glessner, 7-5, 6-4, and Martin's one-sided victory over Boone...