Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Women athletes, likely to be much more under the spell of sport than men, hate losing even more. Since coming so close to outright defeat by, Helen Jacobs, Helen Wills Moody has not entered any major tournaments. Last month she announced that she would henceforth make designing women's underclothes for Lastex her major interest (TIME, Aug 10). If she wins at Forest Hills this week, Helen Jacobs may reasonably conclude that her rivalry with Helen Wills Moody is essentially over and that she has attained...
...capital looked for inspiration. Fighting at the front in overalls was No. 2 Socialist Francisco Largo Caballero, which left the No. 1 a clear field in Madrid last week to state for the first time what is the Government's program in case its Red militia defeat 80% of the Spanish army led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco and General Emilio Mola in a White (i. e., conservative) insurrection against Madrid (TIME, July...
...Landon. . . . For the liberals to split their votes is merely to play into the hands of the Wall Street gang. I have the utmost respect for the Union ticket candidate [z. e., William Lemke] and for Father Coughlin, whose program of monetary reform is sound. . . . However, I think the defeat of Landon is of the utmost importance to the great masses of America. . . ." Second telegram was to Franklin Roosevelt, who had wired him to ''keep up the good fight," suggested seeing him on his drought trip to Minnesota. To the President the sick Governor replied: "Very happy...
...fight in Spain. News of the march caused grim chuckles to a ginger-bearded fat gentleman on the Island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean. Abdel Krim, Rif chieftain who mocked the armies of Spain for six years until French intervention in 1925 brought about his defeat & exile, knew last week that his own Rif tribesmen were being rearmed by the very officers they had fought, paid four pesetas a day and sent to Spain to war on the Socialist Government...
...scene of The Olive Field shifts from the town of Los Olivares to Asturias, and the story comes to a climax with the defeat of the Asturian miners in the revolution of 1934. Although some 50 characters are introduced, most of the violent action revolves around Mudarra, a tall, impetuous Anarchist, a skilled worker in the olive fields, who seduces his best friend's sweetheart, plays the guitar with native genius, tries to blow up a dam, plots against the village priest, endures torture and a year in prison, gets free in time to burn a great store...