Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obstacle that will be presented by militant objectors to the treaty's ratification is the cruiser-building bill which was lost in the last session of Congress. Responsible people have said that President Coolidge encouraged that bill's defeat. They have also said that the cruiser bill would be a good one to trade for the treaty's ratification. They have said further that President Coolidge foresaw this trading possibility. It will not be hard for President Coolidge to reencourage the cruiser bill. It was recommended by his Secretary of the Navy originally. The combination...
...Florence E. S. Knapp, first woman ever elected to public office by statewide vote in New York, was last week sentenced to 30 days in the Albany County Jail. Her crime was grand larceny. In addition, her judge said that she had "persistently endeavored to defeat the ends of justice, and to carry out her purpose she was guilty not only of perjury but of subornation of perjury...
...modern exhaustive analysis has brought the game to the point at which one of his shrewdness can draw every game he plays, that theoretically to gain a victory one must dare an unsound combination. If, sufficiently intricate, its weakness fails to be detected, the game is won. Alternative is defeat. Thus less imaginative plodders can take advantage of more brilliant players' hazardous conceptions...
...every time Jackson ran for office-a frequent occurrence, for he was representative to Congress at Philadelphia (where as a Democrat he disapproved the aristocrat's salons), Senator, head of the state militia, President of the U. S. Election to this post he won chiefly by his spectacular defeat of the British in a campaign which he conducted with fury, picturesque oaths, and sound good sense...
Strange to see in the Ohio primary (see below) was the second defeat in a year for Charles P. Taft II, stalwart, cheerful, encyclopedic son of the Chief Justice of the U. S. As the youthful (31-year-old) Prosecutor of Hamilton County (Cincinnati) he was beaten in December in his attempt to convict George Remus, onetime 'legger and convict, "insane" wife-murderer. As an energetic idealist, Son Taft worked with a Citizens' Republican Committee to reform the G. O. P. in Cincinnati. He preached liberalism, integrity. But it did not go down. He was beaten...