Word: spite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks preceding the election Republicanism reached white heat in the town. Landon Clubs and Constitutional Leagues mushroomed. But the lower elements continued to be low in spite of the best efforts of their neighbors, and, having the jump in population, the Valley caused the town to go for Roosevelt by no uncertain majority...
...abandoned, and the camera men did not follow the lucky few who were admitted into Memorial Hall. It is unfortunate that there is no commemoration of the disarming jocularity of that other President, Mr. Roosevelt, or of what was the highlight of the occasion for many Harvard men in spite of themselves, the delicate hilarity and profound good sense of President Angell...
This meant. Chairman Hamilton explained, that the "largest permanent headquarters in the Party's history" would soon be opened in Washington. No new strategy was this. It was exactly the course followed by Democratic Chairman John J. Raskob when, in 1928 after Al Smith's drubbing, in spite of a huge Democratic deficit, he opened permanent quarters in Washington, hired Press Agent Charles Michelson and set to work preparing Herbert Hoover's downfall. But there are notable differences: 1) Republicans will have difficulty in finding another Michelson, 2) John Hamilton, unlike John Raskob, has not great personal...
...spite of the recently unearthed Connecticut State law dealing with "red flags" which caused a furor both here and in Cambridge a steady throng of Harvard undergraduates poured into town this afternoon, bringing along numerous Crimson banners which are the center of attack. The Yale student body spent the better part of the day in preparation for the numerous social and athletic activities which are planned to entertain the visitors from Cambridge and a host of invading female guests...
...seems that all the Harvard team needs is an even share of the breaks of the game in order to become a consistent winner. Five offensive thrusts carried the Crimson past the Middies' fifteen-yard line, in spite of the superb Navy pass defense, with a varied attack which can produce these results, Harvard's team should be granted an even chance to defeat the Elis. This is in itself a matter for rejoicing, and Coach Harlow deserves universal respect for successfully altering the future augured by the disastrous Army and Dartmouth weekends...