Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late to insure that such a situation never again arises at Harvard. Whether it is salutary or not, football at Harvard, as throughout the nation, stands on the threshold of its greatest era. But if football at Harvard is to be big time, then the H.A.A. must sweep off the cobwebs and emerge from the nineteenth century...
There were more specific reasons. Republicans had won the House because they had broken the Democratic stranglehold in the big cities; they had captured the Senate because they had made a clean sweep of six seats in the West and Northwest, once deep-dyed New Deal. Above all, they had won back a sizable batch of the independent vote...
Labor looked at the new Congress and shuddered. Would its old foes now translate the Republican sweep as a mandate for restriction of unions? One answer came in a hurry. Minnesota's Senator Joe Ball said he would introduce a bill to outlaw the closed shop, which he called "the most illiberal thing in our industrial picture." He and many other Republicans were on record for revision of the Wagner Act, to equalize employers' rights with union rights...
...next swing," James Loeb, national director of the Union for Democratic Action, told the Executive Committee of the Liberal Union last night that "while the present reaction was inevitable, its intensity and its duration depend on how well we prepare ourselves both programatically and organizationally to stop the sweep...
Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor and a prime mover in the Committee for Economic Development, drew an analogy between the Democratic success in 1932 and the GOP sweep on Tuesday. "Every party has its blind spots," he explained. "One of the things which contributed most to the rejection of Hoover in 1933 was that he couldn't visualize adequately the problems of the unemployed and was very slow in getting the Government to help with relief. Now the Democrats have been in office long enough to get into some ruts--to develop some blind spots. One big blind spot...