Word: setbacks
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Even though it invited negroes and Jews to join it, the Ku Klux Klan has just received a severe setback in two major attempts to gain political control of great population centers outside its main field of influence in the middle west and south. A week ago, Klan leaders, in their pre-election prophecies, were exultantly claiming Detroit and Buffalo as their own. Now press dispatches indicate that the anti-Klan candidates have been elected in both cities, although in each case the margin of victory was slim enough to show that the Klan's power over the more hysterical...
...doubles Competition seeded players received a setback from outsiders for the first time in the tournament, when T. E. Jansen Jr., '26 and W. T. Smith '26, after dropping the first set, railled and pulled out the next two and the match, 6 4, 6 4, from L. H. Gordon '27 and P. M. Lenhart...
...Elis, previous to their break with (Pennsylvania 34 year ago, had won 11 victories from the Red and Blue without a defeat. Moreover, Saturday's contest marked the first setback Yale has suffered since Captain Buell's Harvard eleven triumphed at the Bowl in November...
...vote of nine to one, however, the Labor Congress, representing over three million trade unionists, refused to allow the Communists to affiliate with the Labor Party. This action is a severe setback to those who believe a violent revolution is the only solution to the proletariat grievances. It is a further indication of the tendency of the Labor Party toward Conservative policies, a tendency first seen clearly during the premiership of Ramsay Macdonald. This tendency probably received impetus from the Labor Party's defeat in the last general election, a defeat largely caused by the nation's fear of Communism...
Barbee is again slated to take the mound against the visitors. He has worked in 11 of the games to date and has demonstrated such a remarkable brand of pitching that playing twice 3 week has come to be a habit. His only setback came in the contest with Worcester at Worcester in which the school team took advantage of two hits to win by a 1 to 0 score...