Word: triumph
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt have counted New York the climax of their speaking tours. Similarly Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich., after opening the membership drive for his National Union for Social Justice before an apathetic audience in Detroit, followed by a triumph in Cleveland, last week put himself to the critical test in Manhattan...
...East, is looked upon with favor, while Cornell remains the perennial dark Tradition decrees that Columbia will be there, but the loser, in a close finish, the worm turns, for in four close finishes, the Morningside Heights boat has second best four times. Navy, under young Buck Walsh, may triumph, since a crew is always considered dangerous in rough water. Can Callow do for Pennsylvania what he used to do at Washington and what the Ouskers have done--turn in a victory...
...Pacific Ocean. But for all the nation that owned the Navy knew about them, the operations might as well have been held on the dark side of the moon. Greatest hardship fell on the U. S. Press, which grudgingly observed that the maneuvers were "a triumph for censorship." For lack of specific information, correspondents in Honolulu (those aboard the Fleet were virtually incommunicado) sent off tantalizing, imaginative tales about an expected "mass attack of 400 planes on the island of Oahu," revealing that the "entire civilian population of Hawaii" was being hypothetically "enlisted for defense" against a vague "attacking fleet...
...Patman Bill the ten Senators who had voted to substitute it for the Vinson Bill flopped back to vote against it as it was approved 55-to-33. So Legion Commander Belgrano retired from the gallery in glum defeat. Commander Van Zandt of the VFW left the gallery in triumph and proclaimed a "decisive victory." But it was decisive only as a victory of the VFW over the American Legion. Senator Robinson and his Administration friends were left, grinning, in possession of the field, sure that the President's veto could now be upheld. Hastily Senator Thomas began...
...Mexico where he had been attending to the contest for his seat, Bronson Cutting crashed in Missouri. Franklin Roosevelt had lost his outstanding liberal opponent. Day after the Cutting funeral Democratic Governor Clyde Tingley appointed Dennis Chavez to the Senate, and the President's practical if not moral triumph was complete...