Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind these smiling faces and smitten backs were sullen tempers that threatened to ignite a partisan hotfoot and turn the session into a bitter political battlefield (see cut). Southern Senators had agreed on the strategy to be used against any civil-rights program-Harry Truman's or the Republicans': filibuster at the first show of a bill. Most Republicans, taking their cue from noncommittal Tom Dewey, were waiting for the reaction to Harry Truman's message to Congress; but among them there was also heady talk of forcing a swift adjournment...
...published photographs of him," wrote Bigart, "that I failed to recognize him. The spreading moustache which he affected two years ago has been closely cropped. [At 41] he is solidly built and of medium height. His eyes are closely set and deeply lined . . . The brown hair under his partisan cap was long and bushy; rebellious strands kept sliding down his forehead. His mouth is broad and expressive. He has the gift of a quick and charming smile that can alter instantly a face which, in repose, seems hard, impatient, pitiless...
...aggressive partisan politics, but was it good for the nation? There was grave danger that the whole session would bog down in futile political wrangling. Said Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg: "No good can come to the country from a special session of Congress which obviously stems solely from political motives." The greatest danger was that the world would misconstrue a purely domestic fight as evidence of fundamental disagreement over U.S. policies abroad...
Closeting himself with Adviser Dulles, Dewey sat far into the night discussing foreign affairs. Next day, Dewey briskly separated the bipartisan meat from the partisan gristle. The bipartisan policy, said Dewey, applied only to participation in U.N. and ERP which, as enacted, "largely expressed the views of Republican leaders." But in other fields of foreign affairs, "there has been no consultation at all with the Republican leadership." These fields, said Dewey, included the Greek-Turkish policy, the Potsdam agreements, Palestine, and "the entire China policy, or lack of one." Foreign policy, he made clear, was going to be a major...
...supplies power for the Oak Ridge atomic plant. He signed the bill to extend the terms of AEC commissioners for two years, but declared that "the refusal of the Republican leadership to put the public interest first. . . invests the atomic energy program with an aura of uncertainty and partisan politics." (He did not recall that he had set Republican teeth on edge by insisting that Chairman David Lilienthal be reappointed for a five-year term...