Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican ex-governor of the Federal Reserve Board, and by Democratic ex-governor William E. Sweet of Colorado, a National Institution of Public Affairs will pick students this fall from colleges and universities all over the country and take them to Washington for two months' "internship" in 1935. Non-partisan, privately financed, and self-governing, the Institution will have the cooperation of the federal government for its course in practical government. Conferences with high officials and tutorial study groups for individual contacts will from the preparation for a thesis every student will write on a particular administrative problem...
...line has always been even more tightly drawn that the Supreme Court should remain an independent, non-partisan body, subject only to that bedraggled document, the Constitution. The moment that a Justice begins to advise on matters of public moment, his position begins to loss its sanctity, and he becomes subordinate to the political views of the Executive. Perhaps the tendency to concentrate the government in the Executive branch may continue, but until approval is won after serious debate, even such capable men as Judge Brandeis must assist in preserving the present structure of government...
...young men of Harvard who had strong Communist feelings, Cherington pointed out that the Critic's now deal was to be in the form of running the paper as a voice for all who desired to express their opinions. It will be put out on a non-partisan basis with an eye to giving anyone a chance to write for it who has determined convictions and desires to have the public hear about them...
...benefit payments to farmers to use them later as election bait. With a great display of political righteousness, Secretary Wallace loudly reproved him: "It is a contemptible thing, indeed, for a man of Mr. Fletcher's intelligence and standing in the Republican Party to make, deliberately for partisan purposes, a completely unfounded statement designed to stir up ill will...
Back to Paris to the rescue of his shaky cabinet hastened "Gastounet," carrying with him all the sympathy and affection of the French people. Once again he used that affection to club politicians out of purely partisan stands. Calmly he ruled: "Tardieu was replying to calumnies of which he had been made the object. The vehement ardor with which he sought to defend himself led him to exceed the limits within which, in my opinion, he should have remained. . . . But I never thought ... he was acting with the premeditated purpose of putting in danger my truce and the appeasement Ministry...