Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Post, also 100% New Deal, editorialized: "The evidence is too strong to be dismissed that the liberal, internationalist Mr. Wallace is being jettisoned in favor of a conservative Democrat with more partisan political appeal in preparation for the 1944 campaign...
Another service impression: leaders responsible for military debacles are removed, but men in public life, notably those in federal government, who cultured the odoriferous background of this war with nearsightedness, selfishness and partisan politics, have survived and even dared to aspire to leadership in the future. Servicemen are not so tolerant ; they would advise many officials to inspect their own prewar records and start looking for new jobs...
...days later, having issued this challenge to statesmanship, Representative Luce keynoted a Republican convention at Appleton, Wis. Her speech was a model of partisan politics...
...more than a year the ragged army of Dr. Ivan Ribar's Partisan Veche (Council) has done all the effective fighting against the Axis in Yugoslavia. General Draja Mihailovich, famed Chetnik leader, and the exiled government of adolescent King Peter in London have held that their forces should be saved for the moment of Allied invasion. The Partisans often accused Mihailovich of collaborating with the Axis. Last week it became known that the British, who have been trying to coordinate Yugoslav resistance since last autumn, were making another attempt to persuade Mihailovich to get down to the business...
...issue is clearly drawn along partisan lines, Old Grand Party Unity opposing and the administration supporting. Although there are varying degrees of opposition within the Republican ranks, statements of prominent leaders give grounds for the fear that the issue is being fought in terms of party aggrandizement rather than of national welfare. Minnesotan Floor Leader Knutson characterizes the trade pacts as "a succession of dismal failures." Going off on a different tack, he implies that the fundamental question is one involving the power ratio of Congress in relation to foreign policy. Vestiges of isolationist complacency are refurbished by H. Fish...