Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt tried to have it passed in treaty form in March, 1934. No less than 22 Democrats stormed across party lines to hand FDR his first major defeat. As an amendment to the Rivers and Harbors Bill in 1944, the Seaway was an easier victim, and last month's de facto rejection showed the opposition in comfortable command with a 27 vote majority...
...Mexico's able Senator Carl A. Hatch withdrew this week as a candidate for reelection. Stated reason: he wants a federal judgeship. Another reason: there is some doubt that he could defeat Republican Patrick J. Hurley. Most New Mexico Democrats thought that the man who could beat Hurley was Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson; they hoped he would quit the Cabinet soon and take up Hatch's lance...
Michigan, like most colleges, has a song which it sings in victory or defeat...
Yale made a clean sweep of Saturday's freshman sports fare as the Elis made off with victories over the Crimson swimming, fencing, hockey, and basketball teams. It was the swordsmen's first defeat of the season...
Yale's perennial swimming supremacy held away over the Crimson mermen, who salvaged only one first place in going down to a 48 to 27 defeat. The 400-yard freestyle relay quartet--Bob Tolf, Paul Tobias, Jim Dawson, and Morton Hull--picked up the losers' only five-pointer as they beat the Eli four in 3:58.6 minutes...