Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...saying, he disappeared into his private car and his train pulled out for Washington, leaving behind the first public declaration of what he intended to do with his great political triumph. Measured in the percentage of the voting public whom he had won to his support, his triumph was as great as that of Gamaliel Harding in 1920. Measured in electoral votes, it was overwhelming. Measured in moral effect it was greatest of all. For a time at least the terrific impact of his victory had knocked the wind out of all opposition. Alf Landon's personal friend William...
Flushed with the triumph of his great & good friend's return to the White House was John Lewis as he buckled down in Pittsburgh at week's end to map his moves in the other major battle in which he is presently engaged. In Tampa, Fla. next week meets the American Federation of Labor to decide, by ratifying or rejecting the Executive Council's suspension of John Lewis' United Mine Workers and its C. I. 0. allies (TIME, Aug. 17), whether organized Labor shall be fatefully split into two rival factions. Prime movers for peace have...
Without a single dissenting vote the French Chamber passed a resolution congratulating Mr. Roosevelt.* The Speaker of the Chamber, Radical Socialist Edouard Herriot, voiced his "personal satisfaction."Socialist Premier Blum cried: "I am most happy at the triumph of President Roosevelt, for whom I have the greatest admiration!" As a respected editorial voice speaking for the moderate Left, roughly comparable in France to the U. S. Democratic Party, famed Jules Sauerwein of Le Paris-Soir exhulted: "Henceforth democracy has its Chief! After his brilliant triumph President Roosevelt has become the statesman on whom all eyes will be turned from every...
...near-record low, he had at least topped Herbert Hoover's 15,000,000 popular votes of 1932. No such solace was available to the nation's third party candidates and their backers, whose wretched performances at the polls made the Republican fiasco seem a comparative triumph...
...future, the Digest asked its readers: "Should the Democratic Party have quit in 1924 . . . instead of going on to the greatest triumph in its history? Should the University of Minnesota . . . give up [football] because it finally lost one game?" On the question of a change in polling methods, the Digest hedged: "We'll cross that bridge when we come...