Word: bipartisanism
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...Strong bipartisan backing has made it almost certain the Senate will approve this pledge--$1,500,000,000 less than the House's $6,000,000,000 economy promise--when its gets around to voting. A series of proposed speeches may carry the issue through tomorrow's session and over until Wednesday...
...could criticize the General's sense of timing. Had his statement come later, some might have suspected that Harry Truman had suggested to Marshall that he bow himself out. And he had headed off a lot of sniping from Republicans, who could now cooperate on bipartisan foreign policy without the uneasy feeling that they might be building up a presidential candidate for the opposition...
...Rayburn.* After 50 minutes' non-controversial conversation about war surpluses, the Maritime Commission and possible future meetings, the guests walked out to disappoint a mob of newsmen. The talk, said Senator Vandenberg, was strictly confined to matters "unpartisan"-a word he is trying to substitute for "bipartisan" in the capital vocabulary...
...hangar-shaped Public Auditorium. They heard and cheered the two men most responsible for the now bipartisan foreign policy of the U.S.-Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg and retiring Secretary of State James F. Byrnes...
...Republican-inspired confirmation was followed immediately by a bipartisan move to call Marshall before a joint session for a foreign policy review...