Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Angell took the attitude of reason in saying that the importance of the oath bill lies not in its immediate effect, but rather as a herald of things to come. He indulged in a bit of rightful bragging and pointed to the defeat of oath legislation in Connecticut. For the benefit of Mr. Curley he pointed out that freedom still lives across our southern border under the leadership of "Connecticut's Yale-educated governor...
...strong determination of the Government.' "I ask him, in the face of this statement, if the J. P. Morgan that he classified as a racketeer is not the same J. P. Morgan that has made a large contribution to the Republican State Committee in an attempt to defeat me and the other Democratic candidates...
...Democrats out of every three plumped for Senator Russell and the New Deal. In his campaign for Governor two years ago Talmadge carried 156 of Georgia's 159 counties. On last week's electoral vote, which actually did the nominating, he carried only 16. The first political defeat in the earthy, cigar-chewing, gallus-wearing demagog's career, it sounded what most observers regarded as taps for Talmadge. With unwonted dignity Governor Talmadge ruefully declared: "I am in good health, in the prime of life, happy and thankful to the people of Georgia for the honors they...
...Swept to defeat with Gene Talmadge was his entire slate of State candidates, including the man he had picked to succeed him as Governor, President of the State Senate Charles D. Redwine. Winner for that office was the Speaker of the State House of Representatives, Eurith Dickinson Rivers...
...undistorted Euclidean space. These amphibian vectors may be links between cosmos and microcosmos. In Dr. Cartan's audience reporters could not find a single mathematician who could explain his method in layman's language. Dr. Cartan tried himself, conscientiously, through an interpreter. Presently all hands admitted defeat, disbanded...