Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brief sober pause midway between Christmas and New Year's Eve, 358 delegates at the Chicago Conference sweated and politicked through a smoke-filled parliamentary maze. They knew what they wanted: no axe-grinding by existing youth organizations, no partisan domination by doctrinaire minorities, escape from the shadow of past failures in building a U. S. Students movement...
...holiday critics and cynics looked prophetically at the Chicago Student Conference and saw it as anything from worthless to dangerous. They feared that the conference would come up with plans for merely another violently partisan youth organization that would make much political noise and have little practical use as far as the average, non-rabid student was concerned. But the 358 delegates came into the new year with a new kind of plan, a plan that is based on the interests of students as students, and not as members of political or religious groups. Nineteen such groups had delegates present...
Arthur Vandenberg would be missed. By supporting Secretary Byrnes in his policy of "patience as well as firmness" with the Russians, he had kept U.S. foreign policy on a high bi-partisan plane. But in the future, as chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, he might wield even more influence and speak with greater authority...
PORTRAIT OF THE ANTI-SEMITE (27 pp.) -Jean-Paul Sarfre, translated by Mary Guggenheim-Partisan Review Series...
Determined to avoid the dangers of partisan control, University delegates to the three-day National Student Council, beginning in Chicago December 28, will stress the adoption of proposals to keep the group from being run by organization with axes to grind...