Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Party orators were out in corps force; they included nearly all the Cabinet, many of the White House staffers, more than a score of Republican governors, Senators and Representatives. The motif was partisan right down to the "First Lady Salad" in Spokane and the "Fresh Asparagus Spears Nixon" in Cleveland. There were the inevitable bloopers: in New York's dingy Madison Square Garden a television screen went blank just as the President began speaking, came brightly back just as he finished. There was evidence of ward-level tricksters at work: the Los Angeles dinner committee, dominated by Nixon supporters...
...Adams: "There is one accomplishment that I happen to know the President of the U.S. hopes to achieve during these four years. It is this-that the Republican Party shall be built into an effective and dominating force in American politics. He speaks of this, not in any narrow partisan sense, but from his point of view that a national need exists for an organism that reflects the platform, principles and objectives for which he has stood." In Pittsburgh U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. summed up the Eisenhower record and the "great fact that we have prosperity without inflation...
...election year it is perhaps unrealistic to ask a Congressional committee to frame constructive legislation. Yet the country may at least hope that the Joint Committee investigating the alleged fraud of the Al Serena Mines will eventually tire of exchanging the traditional partisan accusations of "smear" and "collusion." Perhaps it could then consider legislation of long-range concern for all Americans. The Committee might determine just why public land laws must continue to undermine the Forest Service's conservation program by allowing "mining companies"--real or contrived--to devastate our forest heartlands...
...Crimson was badly out rebounded throughout the game, played before a near capacity and very partisan crowd. The Indians captured a total of 36 rebounds, to only 26 for the varsity...
Things looked dark indeed for Harvard at the start of the final period when two Providence scores, again resulting from poor backchecking and ragged defense, came before the nine-minute mark. The Crimson struck back, though harassed by the strongly partisan crowd which lined the boards behind Flynn's cage...