Word: defeatism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's friend and attorney brought an explanation from Mr. Shattuck: "Such an impression is untruthful and unfair to the President and myself. Neither I nor any other friend of the President would attempt to use such a friendship in the manner suggested. . . . It would defeat its own purpose. ... I informed Mr. Hoover of my connection [with the Cuba sugar lobby], not to obtain his approval but so that there would be no misunderstanding. I have never sought anything from the President...
...cent he had. He it was who proposed the truce?adjournment of the special session, putting the tariff over to December. On the vote the Young Turks marched into the breach and turned the tide of battle by joining with Insurgent Republicans and a handful of insatiable Democrats to defeat (51 to 34) the adjournment resolution...
...Gustav Stresemann (then an unfamed Reichstag Deputy) ranged hot on the side of Kaiserdom and Conquest. Mann's War-time essays, Reflections of a Non-political Man, show that he shared the general will to spread kultur by the bayonet. Like Stresemann he changed his whole political philosophy after defeat. Both men have been flayed as opportunists. Last week in strongly Royalist Munich, where Republican Mann still lives, news of the Nobel Prize was frigidly received by the newspapers, given scant space, small praise...
...exuberance displayed by Harvard supporters at the victory over Yale was due perhaps not so much to the fact that the traditional rival was beaten but that the Harvard team had fulfilled earlier predictions of latent strength and coordination. The defeat of a major rival in these days is only part of a composite goal that Harvard teams strive for and usually gain. To produce an unbeaten team is no longer the all in all of Harvard athletic policy nor the sole aim of Harvard supporters. For it is most certainly true that the idea of sports for the sake...
...Greene, giant guard and captain of the Blue forces. A deadly tackler and a fast charger, he is the tower of strength in the Yale forward wall that has been opening up the holes for Booth all year. After an early season defeat at the hands of Georgia, Greene led his team to successive victories over Army, Dartmouth, and Princeton...