Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Defeat came last week to Nellie Tayloe Ross, Democrat, Governor of Wyoming. She lost by only 1,000 votes, but she is a thorough gentlewoman with a Rhodes Scholar son, so forthwith she despatched a telegram to her conqueror, Frank E. Emerson, Republican. Said she: "My congratulations and hope for a successful administration." Florence Ellinwood Allen, Ohio State Supreme Court Judge will hold a higher state office than any other woman...
Before being Harvard men we are supposed to be American gentlemen. The sporting traditions of America are inexorable on one point, one cannot quit under defeat. It's yellow. Furthermore a show of reseuiment springing from defeat is underbred and yellow...
...topic chosen for debate is one that has provoked a storm of comment recently in political circles. President Coolidge proposed on November 6, shortly after the defeat of Senator W. M. Butler by a Democratic candidate, that the present administration should pass a law making a refund of 12 per cent on the 1926 income taxes during 1927. The President gave as his reasons for this proposal the fact that there is at present a large government surplus in the Treasury and also the fact that government economy is being pushed to the limit...
Reflections such as these moved the Minister of Marine to say last week: "Our budget for the year balances at 4,077,960,000 yen ($1,999,000,000). Of this only 469,200,000 yen ($230,000,000) is appropriated to naval replacements. . . . Remember that Germany's defeat was due to an economic blockade! . . . We ask only 122,400,000 more yen ($60,000,000), this year, to replace auxiliary craft now ready to be scrapped. . . . Surely Japan is not so poor that she cannot pay this sum to maintain her present fighting strength! . . . The dawn...
...several days ago, but on the other hand by no means so desperate as it was last year at this time. Brown, with a string of uninterrupted victories over some of the leading eastern teams, comes to the Stadium next Saturday a heavy favorite to avenge last year's defeat...