Word: bipartisanism
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...plan half so forthright, was pleased. Franklin Roosevelt invited Senator Tom Connally (who had tried to soft-pedal the speech by asking everyone to be quiet and put his trust in the President until he returned from his meeting with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin) to bring his bipartisan Foreign Relations subcommittee to the White House for a talk...
...page boys were the most impressed participants in the entire assembly. Faces aglow with soap and solemnity, they had brought up two rich brown, mahogany boxes containing the ballots. A bipartisan committee from both houses tallied the vote...
Manhattan leftists scheduled a Madison Square Garden rally, with the wholehearted endorsement of the P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman, to protest further U.S. appeasement of Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. In Congress, Senators Ball, Burton, Hill and Hatch-whose bipartisan B²H² Resolution helped put the Senate on record for international cooperation-revived their demands for a precise definition of foreign policy. Their worthy object: to tell the world in advance just what sort of postwar treaties the new senate will or will not approve, thus removing one cause of intra-Allied distrust. New York...
...From the beginning of this campaign I have insisted that organization for world peace can and must be a bipartisan effort. I shall continue to insist on that approach...
World Security. Here Tom Dewey successfully moved to make U.S. foreign policy both positive and bipartisan. He had loosed a blast at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, expressing fears that Dumbarton Oaks would degenerate into a Big Power conference serving only the Big Powers' ends. When Cordell Hull rose to defend himself, Dewey promptly sent Manhattan Lawyer John Foster Dulles as his emissary to the State Department. The U.S. people, who had known little of Foster Dulles, learned that this scholarly, experienced lawyer might be Tom Dewey's choice for Secretary of State. Whatever exuberant hatchet jobs were subsequently...