Word: foe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next three years when it invaded Ann Arbor to take a victory from the Wolverines in the last race of an indoor meet. Backed by last year's record and a string of eight straight victories over college teams this spring, the University nine has yet to meet a foe of unquestionably equal rank. Michigan comes east with the highest sport credentials...
...Farmer's Foe...
...Congress. *Thomas Jefferson loomed in 1799 as the foe of Federalism, leader of Republicanism. Present day Virginians hail him as father of the Democracy...
...Republican "crooks, grafters and scoundrels" again and once more flailed them down. Large audiences attend him everywhere. Everywhere he was applauded by the Hearst press, which admires President Coolidge and wants Secretary Mellon to succeed him, but whose owner is Candidate Smith's implacable foe...
During speechmaking, the room was darkened and spotlights played on a life-sized oil portrait of Andrew Jackson, the hardbitten, relentless foe of Federalism. Andrew Jackson was the President who introduced the "spoils system" of patronage into national government, but that did not deter Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer for the New York Evening World, from excoriating the "Harding Gang." As historian and first speaker of the evening, Mr. Bowers had first chance to attack the Republicans; he did it so thoroughly that subsequent speakers felt free to talk mainly about themselves or other Democrats...