Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Athens last week uprose Field Marshal George Kondylis, War Minister and supposed to be a Republican. "We do not consider," he startlingly declared, "that the defeat of the Royalists means the defeat of the royalist idea." Meanwhile Premier Tsaldaris abruptly announced that a nationwide plebiscite will be held on the issue of whether to invite George II to return to Athens as King. The newly elected Assembly, said M. Tsaldaris, will set the date for this plebiscite. On which side he himself would be the Premier let Greece guess but Athens buzzed with rumors that he and his Cabinet...
...Continuation of a codeless, unenforced NRA under a skeleton staff until April 1, 1936-a proposition promptly passed (264-to-121) by the House but threatened with defeat in the Senate by those who wanted NRA's bones more quickly buried...
Representative Maury Maverick of Texas was incensed at these facts from Mr. Cassidy's summary of the McCarl report. Demanding that Mr. Cassidy be thrown out of the Committee room, he yelled: "An immense crooked lobby is trying to defeat TVA. It is rotten and disgraceful!" He charged that the summary was false: "If I weren't in Congress and it would not be undignified to say so, I would say it's lousy." David E. Lilienthal, TVA director, was called to the stand and declared the Cassidy summary "misleading." Comptroller McCarl, also called, said the summary...
...defeat could have been more complete for the Roosevelt administration than the Supreme Court's decision declaring the National Recovery Act unconstitutional. Although it will undoubtedly bring relief to a large group of businessmen who have been so restless and uneasy during past months, the decision can bring nothing but disappointment to those who hoped that the New Deal would have certain permanent effects upon the social structure of the country...
...Hepburn makes it clear that unless her employers see fit to restore her to roles in keeping with her mannerisms, these will presently annoy cinemaddicts into forgetting that she is really an actress of great promise and considerable style. As the orchestra leader, Charles Boyer manages to make the defeat which he receives from his material comparatively graceful. Worst shot: the hero telling the heroine how little he has loved the mistresses whose photographs hang in his living room...