Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gerald P. Nye, 34, Senator from North Dakota, tightlipped, square-shouldered, lean newspaper editor, is the other insurgent youngster. Up from the prairies he sprang to defeat President Coolidge's good friend, Louis B. Hanna, in the Republican primaries last summer. Then last week he informed the President that he frowned upon the appointment of any of Mr. Hanna's friends to Federal jobs either in Washington or North Dakota. Forthwith, the President patched up a peace...
Then there was Governess Ross who talked politics rather than birth control. She said that she had taken her defeat for re-election "like a woman." Although the League of Women Voters is a non-partisan organization, yet there was much boom-business for Nellie Tayloe Ross as 1928 Democratic candidate for Vice President. Had not Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith said that she typified "the woman citizen at her best...
Playing their second matches of the season on Saturday the University squash teams in classes A and B swept through with a clean slate. The Freshman team suffered a 1-4 defeat at the hands of the Union Boat Club...
Team B, smarting under a 1-4 defeat by Newton Center, scored a complete victory over the University Club group. The 1930 then were conquered by a 1-4 score by the Union Boat Club. W. S. Hardie was the only Crimson victor...
Team B, which met defeat last Saturday at the hands of a strong Newton Center aggregation, will clash with the new University Club group of Boston on the University courts at 3 o'clock. This team, which made its debut last Saturday, is a new-comer in the league and has not yet had a chance to prove its strength. E. D. Pratt '27 and W. J. Iselin '29 have already played off their matches, which they won 3-1 and 3-0, A. G. Thatcher '29 and J. C. Rueter '28 will complete the line...