Word: setback
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Malvy. Hotheads leaped up and bellowed that the new Minister of Interior, Louis Jean Malvy, was friendly to the notorious Germany spy, Mata Hari, during the War, that he had traitorously sold information to the Germans, fomented mutinies and was even chiefly responsible for the Allied setback at the Chemin des Dames. They demanded to know why M. Briand had included such a man in his Cabinet.* In vain the Government, supporters yelled hack that most of these charges were lies in the first place and that anyhow M. Malvy had expiated whatever guilt was his by submitting...
George the Last. Disappointed but undaunted by this setback, Pangalos, Kondylis and Hadjikyriakos all enlisted under the banner of Plastiras and Gonatas. While the unhappy George II "reigned though he could not rule," a degenerate struggle for supremacy was waged between Plastiras at Athens and his purely nominal adherent, Pangalos, who had succeeded in demanding and obtaining the military governorship of Macedonia and Thrace. Bribes and the subtle poisons for which the modern Greeks are notorious were resorted to with abandon. By 1923, Pangalos had gathered sufficient power to become chiefly instrumental in forcing King George II into exile (TIME...
...their next tilt, the Nassau warriors led the Harvard six for two periods, only to lose, 4--3, in an exciting overtime game. Since this setback, the Tigers have again resumed their policy of gaining experience by the use of practice games. Incidentally, Yale was taken into Camp, and following this, the Tigers lost for the second time to the St. Nick's, this time by the count of $ 4. The New York Athletic Club has been downed 4 $ in an overtime game, and Merristown furnished the Princeton skaters with a practice session, the Tigers winning...
...Freshman trio also suffered a setback at the hands of the 51st artillery brigade squad by a 9 1-2 to 2 1-2 count, in the Commonwealth Armory Saturday night. The 1929 trio played good polo in its first game of the season, but was not sufficiently experienced for its opponents...
Even though it invited negroes and Jews to join it, the Ku Klux Klan has just received a severe setback in two major attempts to gain political control of great population centers outside its main field of influence in the middle west and south. A week ago, Klan leaders, in their pre-election prophecies, were exultantly claiming Detroit and Buffalo as their own. Now press dispatches indicate that the anti-Klan candidates have been elected in both cities, although in each case the margin of victory was slim enough to show that the Klan's power over the more hysterical...