Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doubtless the ball team has had a real grievance in the partisan selection of umpires. But for the season now opening umpires are to be chosen by the A.A. from a list of officials approved by the New England Conference of Colleges, just as in hockey, basketball, and other minor sports. Hence-forth, then, the cry of unfairness and preconceived bias cannot be levelled at the umpires with any shred of justice or right...
...petition reads as follows: "We, the undersigned, members of the Harvard Law School, wish to convey our disapproval of the recent suggestion for increasing the membership of the Supreme Court of the United States. The precedent created by such action could only operate to partisan ends. We therefore urge the judiciary committee to report the proposed legislation unfavorably to the Senate...
Gradually the opposition to the President's proposal began to take form, the Republicans generally leaving the leadership to Democrats in order not to make it a partisan issue. Democratic Senator Burke of Nebraska described the bill as ''the most direct attack on the independence of our judiciary which the country has seen." Democratic Senator King of Utah declared, 'T most certainly do not approve. . . ." Democratic Senator Glass, at home in Lynchburg. Va., snorted at newshawks, "I thought it was generally understood that I was opposed to any tinkering with the Supreme Court...
...even the most rabid partisan can carp and criticise when the picture of the lower courts is painted dark and dismal. District courts throughought the country, and especially in populous and important financial centers, like the lower New York area, are bogged down in labyrinthinc legal tangles that take years to unravel. While cases sit on the docket for months in and months out in the vain hope of coming to trial, money is lost to all contenders as settlements drags out to the edge of doom, and the inevitable lawyers hover about like harpics waiting for their fees...
...typical expert with whom we have had experience in government has been nurtured apart from the realities and so given to fitting his task to his theories. Also, with a comparatively modest bureaucracy, we have been better able to afford the trial and error methods of the deserving partisan. But now government has so expanded its functions that it has become the country's major industry and the need of a trained personnel is magnified, and the Harvard program proposes a brand of expert whose pedantry is minimized...