Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first game of the two-out-of-three series for polo's Cup of the Americas last fortnight, Greentree, representing the U. S., was roundly beaten by Argentina, 21-to-9. There were two reasons for the defeat (TIME, Sept. 28). One was the superiority of the Argentine ponies. The other was the superiority of the Argentine players...
...candidate of their own, are this year hoping & praying for the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt. Their declaration for him has been delivered obliquely in the form of statements by Nominee Earl Browder and other Red leaders that the No. 1 Communist objective in the current campaign is to "defeat the Landon-Hearst-Liberty League reaction" (TIME, July 6). That objective stemmed from a shift in Communist world strategy decided at Moscow last year. Reds in every land were to cease their partisan sniping, work for a "People's Front" of all Liberals and Labor...
...last week when Michigan counted its primary ballots the New Deal suffered two defeats. The first, utterly inglorious, involved Emil Hurja, Democratic Boss Farley's No. 1 assistant, who was disfranchised when the election board at Crystal Falls discovered that his absentee ballot was improperly witnessed. The second New Deal defeat was that one of the scant 23 Republicans now in the U. S. Senate definitely lost his chance of returning there. He was James Couzens, who made his millions as a onetime Ford partner and his reputation for independence as a longtime (since 1922) Senator...
Part of the reason for that defeat was that Michigan's New Dealers were not allowed to vote in both Democratic and Republican primaries. No less than 270,000 of them voted on Democratic ballots to nominate Detroit's onetime Mayor, popular Frank Murphy, High Commissioner to the Philippines to run against Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald who was renominated by the Republicans...
...World War of a thousand novels from Barbusse's Under Fire to Celine's Journey to the End of the Night, is presented with unqualified horror in most, with victory or defeat equally intolerable and campaigns and assaults measured in terms of the lives they cost rather than the strategy that determined them. But the War pictured in Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of an Infantry Officer and Sherston's Progress is War as it appeared to a trained and disciplined British officer, winner of the Military Cross, a poet whose mind was filled with thousands...