Word: setbacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the setback, RCA would not admit defeat. This week it announced a $1,000,000 ad campaign to plug its 455. At the same time, RCA will cut the price of its record-player attachment from $24.95 to $12.95. But RCA is a little late. Three months ago Columbia brought out an LP player attachment...
...Taft agreed. Six Republicans and six Democrats agreed to file a motion to order a D.P. bill out of the Judiciary Committee. If successful, it would be the first time a bill had been pried out of a Senate committee since 1932. It would also be the first real setback McCarran and McKellar had met since they set out to crack the whip over the Senate...
...suffered a great defeat at the Kasserine Pass. Among the reasons General Eisenhower gave for this setback was the 'greenness' of our soldiers and leaders and the faulty information he had to base his decisions on. But the important thing was that General Eisenhower knew why we suffered that defeat. The point I'd like to make is that today, though the U.N. has not reached all its objectives, we, as well as much of the rest of the world, recognize those objectives. And we know that we are green, too-young in thinking in world terms...
...Only Worry. How effective Drew's attacks had been against the Liberals would not be known until election night. There were signs, however, that his campaign had hurt the socialist CCF. In last week's provincial election in British Columbia, the CCF had its worst setback since entering B.C. politics...
Louis Johnson, the man who had never before known a major setback, poured out his hurt and humiliation in a note of resignation to his "Dear Mr. President." Then he went back to Clarksburg to brood on man's infidelity to man-and to commit his thoughts to paper in a book which still rests in the Johnson safe-deposit...