Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Affiliation of the Teacher's Union with the Labor's Non-Partisan League which is pledged to the recletion of President Roosevelt was announced after a meeting held in the Faculty Cub yesterday afternoon...
Franklin Roosevelt had begun to demonstrate his skill as a campaigner as soon as he arrived in Syracuse that afternoon. Syracuse's most popular politician is Republican Mayor Rolland B. Marvin. Democratic Nominee Roosevelt tickled Syracuse's pride, assured bi-partisan applause on his progress through the city's streets by bundling delighted Mayor Marvin into the back seat of his automobile between himself and Governor Lehman. Proceeding to Syracuse University to lay the cornerstone of a new College of Medicine unit, he praised local initiative, deftly reminded his listeners that the new building had been made...
...Marquess of Linlithgow, a banker whose hobby is agriculture, minutely traveled over India for almost three years as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Agriculture in India (1926-28). Because of his aloofness from partisan politics he was made Chairman of Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Indian Constitutional Reform (1933) and he and Sir Samuel Hoare, then Secretary of State for India, are together responsible for drafting and carrying through Parliament against brilliant die-hard Tory opposition the present new Indian Constitution, famed "Longest Bill ever to pass the Mother of Parliaments" (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante...
There is a gratifying amount of plain common sense in these clippings, the sort to which one turns as a refuge from the partisan gas-clouds that filled the air at the time they were written, and fill it now more than ever. To the cry of inflation, he retorts with the magic word reflation, with the absolute need and desirability of a controlled expansion of credit. To the preposterous moral arguments about the abrogation of the gold clause, he replies with humor, and point to the obvious realities regarding promises to pay in gold that extend far beyond...
...opening the Fall campaign with respectable professorial speakers and non-partisan debates, the Student Union manages to put on a facade of official virtue. However, official virtue will be but small consolation to the disillusioned yearling if he finds that his money is to be used for such preciously futile pranks as strikes against non-existent wars. The Union can be constructive; it is up to the freshmen to help make...