Word: gopartisans
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Both the New York Times's well-informed Arthur Krock and the New York Sun's frankly GOPartisan George Van Slyke insisted last week that the phrase had a solid basis in fact. According to the story, Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan had gone for instructions to the President's private car as it sat on a Chicago siding just before the July convention officially began. The President, closely following the vice-presidential race, had decided to dump both Jimmy Byrnes and Henry Wallace. Worried over the dissension, he allegedly said: "Go on down there and nominate...
...called attention to the fact that FCA, HOLC and RFC had bailed insurance" companies out of some $523,000,000 of troublesome assets, declared U. S. life insurance policies "the safest of all possible securities." Later when newshawks asked him if the conference was, in effect, a retort to GOPartisan Knox, the President replied: "Res ipsa loquitur...
Eugene Meyer, Herbert Hoover's Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, is a potent GOPartisan. While rehabilitating his paper's editorial staff, prestige, circulation and advertising Publisher Meyer missed no opportunity to take pot shots at the New Deal. Last fortnight he stepped boldly out with a series of critical articles called "The New Dealers-the Low Down on the Higher Ups." Chapters of a book yet to be published by Simon & Schuster, the sketches were signed "By the Unofficial Observer...
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