Word: defeated
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...uneasy in his unaccustomed formal clothes, his shrewd, warm eyes downcast, his bald head shining dully in the soft glow from the vast skylight. Inches from his right hand was the gavel, the symbol of the authority he would now wield as Speaker of the House, until death or defeat of the Democrats. Sam Rayburn, 58, of Bonham, Tex., bachelor, shorthorn breeder, and for seven years a moderator of the New Deal, was waiting to speak his piece...
...Excess Profits Tax debate as a good time to bring its conclusions to the Senate's attention. A long-needed tax reform, which was promised in the Democratic Chicago platform, the ending of tax-exempts was strongly opposed by Senators Austin, Burke and 42 others, who managed to defeat the Brown amendment. Many a Senator who really favored the Brown proposal voted with the nays. Their reason: it would delay and further complicate the Excess Profits...
There were certain to be questions on whether Gamelin sacrificed his ill-equipped troops to cover his own blunder, why Reynaud and Daladier ever conceived that France could defeat Germany, why planes were abandoned intact for the enemy to take over, and who were the men responsible for such errors as ordering an armaments factory immediately abandoned when the assembly line was filled with virtually completed tanks. Everything could come under review with a court charged to determine and judge the men responsible for "the passage from the state of peace to a state of war" and whose acts subsequently...
About ten men from last year's squad, that went through a tough schedule without a defeat, have been working out under the genial Jaakko during the last few days but so far practice has been limited to limbering up and easy jogging...
...group of cards is shown celebrating various zeppelin and plane bombing attacks on Antwerp, Yarmouth, and other cities. In another set of postcards the German propagandists are shown attacking the Italians of 1915 as "treulos" and "falsch," and ridiculing the Russian army for its defeat at Tannenberg...