Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese, who had been pushing along the railroad toward Chengchow, hoping to make it a base for their southerly drive to Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's provisional capital, the flood was a severe setback. Tokyo papers at once accused the devilish Chinese of having sprung the dikes as a strategic military move. "An atrocity," cried Damei, "by barbarian Chinese. . . . The Japanese are making frantic efforts to check the flow and to rescue the Chinese caught in the flood area, at the same time repulsing Chinese attacks...
When he took office, "Bible Bill" asked Ottawa for a loan of $18,000,000, received only $2,850,000. When he tried to put through a law muzzling the hostile press and making all banks Social Credit institutions, Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir vetoed the project. Final setback came last March. According to the British North America Act (Canada's Constitution), the Dominion holds control over currency, banking, interprovincial commerce. Canada's Supreme Court pondered Alberta's Social Credit laws, decided unanimously that they ran afoul the Dominion's monetary system...
Throughout the game no more than one Crimson man reached first in a single inning as Devaney erased his previous 7-6 setback by the Varsity at Cambridge. Lupien's triple in the twelfth was the only extra base hit of the game...
Serving his fifth term as mayor of the city of Waterbury (pop.: 98,000) and his second as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, husky, ruddy Democrat T. Frank Hayes last October got a setback galling to a political boss-his hand-picked Waterbury comptroller, Daniel J. Leary, lost an election to Republican Sherwood L. Rowland by 33 votes. Republican Comptroller Rowland took a good look at the accounts of the eight-year Hayes regime, called in State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn. Attorney Alcorn took another look, called in a grand jury...
...date the Crimson has been noticeably weak in games outside the circuit. With either Healey or Ingalls on the slab this afternoon, the highly touted Rhode Islanders may receive a surprising setback by the Eastern Intercollegiate League leading Mitchellmen...