Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arizona Democrats renominated eloquent Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst because of his long and loyal services, Governor Benjamin Baker Moeur in spite of his State tax program, Congresswoman-at-large Isabella Greenway because of her personal popularity and close connection with the White House...
...Dealers All. Each of Georgia's three candidates for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination swore that he and he alone was the one true friend of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. In spite of his parole profligacy and the fact that his State is one of the five in which the Federal Government administers its own work relief, Governor Eugene Talmadge apparently swore the most convincingly. He might wear outlandish cowboy clothes in public and his wife might hang the family wash in the front yard of the executive mansion, but the back-country farmers trooped to the polls...
...worked his way through college in a cotton mill, won with a 33,000 majority. Each contestant dodged the Prohibition issue by declaring he would stand by the results of an advisory referendum which, held a fortnight before, turned out to be Wet by 23,000 votes in spite of the State's failure to ratify the 21st Amendment...
...reading is principally from Sorokin and Zimmerman's "Principals of Rural-Urban Sociology", which, in spite of the assertions of the Sociology department, can be reproduced by any undergraduate after reading the first few pages. It is a condensed version of the three-volume "Source Book in Rural-Urban Sociology" and the contents might very well be reduced another third. The summaries at the end of each chapter, if read carefully are more than sufficient...
With the reduction of the squad earlier this week, from 90 to 44 players the coaches got down to business and sent the men through a stiff workout in spite of the drizzle which threatened to keep the team indoors. The morning session was held in the cage with special emphasis placed on blocking. In fact, the bulk of the day was given over to this essential and Coaches Walsh, Fesler and Lane worked all afternoon on the blocking problem. The motto this year is, "Nobody on the squad who can't block" and the players are certainly getting...