Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be the leaders of that Republican come-back and what should be their issues was a question he did not answer, a question so obvious that every G. O. Partisan in the land was trying to answer it. On the morning after, the first name that occurred to anyone was that of Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, the only Republican Senator to be re-elected on terms even mildly resembling a Party victory. He had carried Michigan and towed many of that State's Republican Representatives to victory with him. His record was not a record of outright opposition...
...Lobby is a non-partisan organization headed by Professor John Dewey which is working for legislation at the National Capital to balance consumption and production by eliminating profit. Mr. Marsh this summer visited the Scandinavian countries, Russia, Poland, Germany, France and England, to see what these governments are doing on the People's Lobby program. During the fall he made a five weeks speaking trip to the Pacific Coast...
...three men are Earl Browder, leader of the Communist party in America; Powers Hapgood '21, prominent Socialist; and Robert Baldwin '17, head of the American Civil Liberties League. The later organization is a non-partisan league, whose activities of late have centered chiefly in fights for free speech...
...Waukesha. At a Republican rally where 2,300 citizens were assembled, John Brigg Gay, tall, slender, military, a champion marksman, popular with his fellow War veterans, got up to explain why he should be elected to Congress- a job for which he was defeated two years ago. G. O. Partisan Gay spoke for a full hour, while John Chapple. Republican nominee for Senator (see above), waited his turn and the crowd grew restive. The interminable flow of oratory went on until suddenly Nominee Gay had everyone's shocked attention. Said...
...simple, direct statements of policy the President can dispel the doubts and fears which paralyze business and prevent recovery. By promising to balance the budget in the near future, by assuring industry that the government will not tolerate attempts at domination by labor, by pledging non-partisan distribution of federal funds, and the maintenance of national credit, he can aid in breaking the present dam which is keeping billions of dollars from normal investment. Retracting his oft-repeated thrusts at the banking profession he can bring about that salutary cooperation between government and finance which has been...