Word: losers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paved the way to a fierce political battle in the November election. In the G. O. Primary three months ago Mr. Pinchot won the nomination over Francis Shunk Brown, candidate of Boss Vare of Philadelphia, by a plurality of 20,099 votes (TIME, June 2). Mr. Brown, a poor loser, contended he had been "robbed" of the nomination, sought a technical lever to pry Mr. Pinchot off the top of the political pile. He found it in Luzerne county where he had won 15,516 votes to Mr. Pinchot's 42,075. He charged that some 60,000 ballots there...
Significance in the last election the Press Lords" backed Loser David Lloyd George. Next they started a great national campaign for "Empire Free Trade" (TIME, Dec. 2, et seq.). Contributions to their campaign fund were handled by Treasurer Beaverbrook. Suddenly he vvithdrew from the "United Empire Party " returned all contributions to contributors (thus leaving Viscount Rotnermere holding an empty bag) and joined with Stanley Baldwin on the basis that "food taxes," a major feature of the Empire Free Trade" scheme, would be submitted to popular referendum by the Conservatives if returned to power (TIME, March 17). Tiring soon of slow...
...Game 4--Loser of Game 1 vs. Loser of Game...
...Royal Box with Suada's owner, his son-in-law, the spidery-limbed Earl of Harewood, spouse of Princess Mary. In the fourth race Royalty's loping Suada was almost lost among the last of the also-rans, and lost with it was the King's guinea. A genial loser, George V discreetly made known that he was having fun, that he planned to stay through the whole series of Newmarket races...
...Danielson wagered with his advertising staff: "When you succeed in selling 100 pages of advertising in a single issue, I will give you a champagne dinner." Last week in a Manhattan club, champagne corks popped in salute to 102 pages of advertising in the May Sportsman. A joyful loser, Editor Danielson toasted his admen. A graceful winner, Chief Adman Ralf Coykendall called the hundred-mark but a milestone...