Word: bipartisanism
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...class in international relations, Sophomore Sabina Slotta of Mills College in Oakland, Calif, decided to survey her fellow students on world events. Her findings rocked the campus: of 100 girls, 70 confessed they had no idea what bipartisan foreign policy is, 28 were "totally uninformed" about the Atlantic pact, 39 could not name the President of Argentina ("I don't know his name, but he has a pretty, young wife," volunteered one girl), nine never read the papers, and 56 merely glanced over the headlines...
...foreign affairs there is no reason to expect Britain's voice to be weakened by the hairbreadth situation in the House of Commons. Bipartisan foreign policy is an old story in Britain. With both parties driving towards the center in domestic politics, a working foreign policy should be easily possible. Doctrinaire national socialism has contributed to British obstruction of European integration. This obstruction should be reduced in future months...
Spoil the Broth. On one point the statement's drafters were firm. National Committeeman Werner Schroeder, who speaks for the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, wanted to abandon the bipartisan foreign policy, but he was briskly quashed. Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge fought vainly for a more vigorous civil-rights plank. Cried Lodge: "We've got to get the ball and run with it. We must declare our forthright determination to break a filibuster if necessary...
...history a presidential candidate has won a plurality of the popular vote only to lose the election.* Reason: the archaic electoral-college system, an unhappy late-hour compromise device adopted when the Constitution was written and the subject of steady fire ever since. Last week, by a bipartisan majority of 64 to 27, the Senate approved a proposed constitutional amendment which would change all that. It would divide the electoral votes of each state according to the popular vote each candidate polled...
...find out, a bipartisan Senate-House subcommittee, headed by Illinois' Democrat Paul H. Douglas (TIME, Jan. 16), put this question to almost 500 U.S. economists, bankers and federal officials. Last week, in a clear, plain-speaking 50-page report that was notable for its lack of political partisanship, the subcommittee laid out a blueprint to put the U.S. fiscal house in order...