Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. Had Huey Long lived, opined General Hugh S. Johnson last week, a third party might have brought defeat to Franklin Roosevelt next November. But even with Huey Long dead and leadership of his scattered Share-the-Wealthers fallen to a fustian evangelist; even with Priest Coughlin well past his peak of popularity; even with Dr. Townsend stripped of prestige by a Congressional investigation and minus the shrewd boss who whipped his inchoate following into a potent political organization-yet the birth of the Union Party brought grins to Republican faces, shivers to Democratic spines...
...potent political father, David W. Mulvane, late boss of Kansas. In 1924 Hamilton,' with Mulvane's backing, was elected to the Kansas Legislature, served until 1928, finished as its Speaker. Far from a flaming beacon of liberalism was the Mulvane machine. In the Kansas House, Hamilton helped defeat the Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution...
Said Mr. Farley: "This is the weakest ticket ever nominated in the history of the party and it is doomed to overwhelming defeat. Their candidate was, until he was lifted to eminence by the familiar building-up process, perhaps one of the least known of the governors of the 48 states...
After two and a half months of futile picketing, squabbling with police and bickering with the heads of the International Seamen's Union, the "outlaw" seamen's strike in New York Harbor (TIME, May 25) last week fizzled out in complete defeat for the strikers. Offered a settlement by the Union heads which promised nothing except "no discrimination," the insurgents reluctantly agreed to return to work, give up their demands for a higher wage scale, overtime pay, control of their hiring halls. Most admitted defeat. To save his face, Strikeleader Joseph Curran announced...
Judged solely on his record Johnson was one of the outstanding wrestlers developed by the man whom he succeeds. Out of 25 bouts Johnson threw his opponent in 16 and was returned a decision in eight others while suffering a single defeat. He was captain of both his Freshman and Varsity teams...