Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Close scrutiny of returns in the cities confirmed the fact of Hitler's magic in appealing to the rabble. In Catholic and aristocratic sections the vote fell off, but the worst local setback to Hitler was a victory of only 823 to 350, reported locally just outside Berlin. Five die-hard Berlin Reds wrote across their ballots THÄLMANN...
Shortly after Parliament adjourned last week President Runciman's efforts to stimulate Anglo-German trade received a sharp setback. A Lancashire textile delegation sent to Berlin under Sir George Holden with the cooperation of the Board of Trade reported most adversely on German credit. Promptly in Manchester the Empire's leading cotton spinners announced that they will sell no more yarn to Germany, that as a result they must throw out of work at least 10.000 skilled spinning operatives in Lancashire, 40,000 other Britons, directly or indirectly employed in cotton milling...
Dartmouth's hopes for the baseball league pannant were given a temporary setback yesterday when old man rain decided to take a hand in the race for the League championship. Just after the covers had been taken off the field a thunder storm turned Soldiers Field into a juicy marsh, and in the interests of economy it was decided to spare the field and spoil the pennant...
Thus ended the greatest political setback the Administration has had so far and the greatest economic setback U. S. aviation has had since its beginning. With both Mr. Farley and the airlines apparently willing to let bygones be bygones, action was swiftly taken to relieve the Army of its onerous mail-carrying duties...
Cuba got the biggest setback but with no vote in Congress she had to be content with what was given her. The Philippines, about to be given their freedom, were in more or less the same predicament, but were more liberally treated to induce them to accept freedom. The others began at once to wrangle. Movements for Statehood took life in both Hawaii and Puerto Rico (see p. 14) as one means of getting a vote in Congress and lobbying for bigger quotas. The beet industry alone was in a position to wrangle at once. When the Jones-Costigan bill...