Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...levels of authority, before he committed forces to Korea. Alben Barkley, the mellow Kentuckian Senator and Vice President, was heard to rip into a Democratic colleague who kept attacking Republican leaders. Night after night Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson would go down to Eisenhower's White House breathing partisan fire, but something magic always happened when the old General uncorked the bourbon and told the Texans how much he admired them and needed them. Back on the Hill, those two passed the legislation that Ike wanted and a little extra for themselves. And it was about that time that...
Although the institutional integrity of Congress is more than a partisan concern, the Democratic leaders of both chambers-often criticized for their meekness in letting their powers erode -sounded especially angry. "If there is one mandate to us above all others," Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield told the Senate Democratic caucus, "it is to exercise our separate and distinct constitutional role in the operation of the Federal Government. The people have called for the reinforcement of the checks and balances." House Speaker Carl Albert similarly vowed to "work harder than I have ever worked in my life . . . to safeguard...
...crop up when an organization of the size and complexity of the FBI loses the only chief it ever had. But the nagging problem that will not go away is Gray's tie with President Nixon. Whatever Hoover's flaws, no one could accuse him of playing partisan politics; he intended the bureau to be above such doings and made that ideal stick during his reign...
...bourgeois consumer mentality," will wink off Belgrade TV screens next month. The movie Patton was abruptly banished from Belgrade theaters last week for "glorifying the U.S. army of aggression." Yugoslav youths who used to wear G.I. fatigues and U.S. Army insignia are now being urged to switch to "the Partisan look" -belted tunics styled after the uniforms worn by Tito's World War II guerrillas...
...January 19th Committee, a non-partisan antiwar group, announced plans at a morning press conference yesterday for a massive lunch hour demonstration to be held in Boston on January...