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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smoke from the Eisenhower fireworks seemed to be drifting away, and the boom for Justice William 0. Douglas had collapsed. This week, Americans for Democratic Action, the last sizable Democratic bloc outside the South still holding out against Harry Truman, sourly conceded defeat. A.D.A., which had favored both Ike and Douglas, admitted that the President could get the nomination "if he persists [in pursuing it] with the power of his office." In other words, they would be for Truman, but without enthusiasm. When Eleanor Roosevelt, a prominent figure in A.D.A., emerged from a White House chat with the President last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Like Death & Taxes | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Cornell was a tough oarsmen battle last week, but predictions on tomorrow's struggle with Navy and Pennsylvania's crews seem to relegate the Crimson's previous defeat to the realm of canoeing on a moonlit lake...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Underdog Eight Rows Navy, Penn Tomorrow | 5/7/1948 | See Source »

Delving into history, Tom Bolles has derived some solace about Saturday's defeat by comparing it with events of a year ago, when the Crimson "won its first two races by one grant and lost the next by two grunts...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Bolles Not Depressed Over Defeat by Cornell | 5/6/1948 | See Source »

Junior Varsity baseball continued in its usual groove and Freshman baseball continued in its usual rut yesterday afternoon on Soldiers Field as the Jayvees tagged Leicester with a 19 to 2 defeat while Dartmouth was taking the Yardlings for a 5 to 3 ride...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.V. Nine Scores Again as Indians Defeat Freshmen | 5/5/1948 | See Source »

...soon a message went out from Communist headquarters to "stop moping." Palmiro Togliatti gave out the official excuse for the defeat: the elections had not been free-the U.S. and the Vatican had interfered. Said Luigi Longo, who commands the Red partisans: "The election was not a Waterloo, but just a lost battle . . . The relations between the government and the people will go through dangerous tensions . . . We will collect the fruits of our labors at some future date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Battle Continues | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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