Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bulletin No. 10 the Republican National Committee released excerpts from a speech made last spring by William Edgar Hull, onetime (1923-33) Illinois Congressman, who accused President Roosevelt of making ready to tax "the billions of dollars in church property in the U. S." Said G. O. Partisan Hull: "I do not say that Mr. Roosevelt wants to tax the churches. But his spending policies make it impossible for him to escape this action long." To this the Commonweal, liberal Catholic weekly, replied: "Preposterous piffle...
...polls in November. But, while cautious William Green clung to A. F. of L.'s nonpartisan tradition and refused to pledge it publicly to the New Deal, bold John Lewis had rushed in to place his industrial unionists solidly behind the President, help organize Labor's Non-Partisan League to work for his reelection. When Franklin Roosevelt gratefully accepted this support, craft unionists began to suspect that he would reward it by siding with John Lewis in Labor's internal dispute. A further political complication was the fact that one of the A. F. of L. Executive...
...been connected with almost every farm organization in the Northwest, William Lemke thinks and speaks with a well-trained mind. Even colleagues who question his judgment concede his ability and conscientiousness. Well-versed in insurgent politics by his long career in North Dakota's Non-Partisan League as it wrested control of the state Republican machine from Old Guardsmen, Candidate Lemke replied last week when asked how he was going to finance his new party: "I am not concerned about finances. Money is considered important only when deals are to be made and the sovereignty of the people bargained...
...Belgian elections made the Socialists, instead of van Zeeland's Catholics, the Chamber of Deputies' biggest party. Van Zeeland's men had lost many seats to the Rexists, wild, new, Catholic-Fascist party of young Léon Degrelle. When van Zeeland resigned, he precipitated a partisan brawl among the National Union parties (Catholics, Christian Democrats, Liberals and Socialists) who had supported his effective program of devaluation and controlled inflation...
...received their money's worth, watching: ¶ The 118-lb. championship match which Jackie Wilson, a six-foot Negro bootblack won simply because his pint-sized opponent could not reach his face. ¶ The 147-lb. title bout which Negro Howell King won despite the unholy booing of partisan spectators who thought he had overcome Chicago's own Chester Rutecki by low punches. ¶ The 160-lb. championship contest which went to Negro Jimmy Clark, who was so enraged at the continued booing that he floored his Syracuse University opponent for a count of nine in the first...