Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having managed his father's apple, peach, plum, cherry and pear farm during summer vacations from college. When Senator Byrd began to question him about his radical beliefs, he twisted and dodged. Yet he was saved from any real embarrassment by the conduct of the hearing. A partisan crowd filling the room applauded, yelled, booed, shouted "We want Tugwell!" and "Hurrah for Byrd!" The Senators were no more restrained. When Senator Murphy accused Chairman Smith of attacking the Administration, Mr. Smith, red faced, jumped up, shook his fist under the lowan's nose. "By the eternal...
...least some provision for practical training tin government for students of political science must be provided. For it is they who will take over the reins of political control in the future and they must be trained for the responsibilities of leadership while young and free from partisan tutelage...
...walk and addressing the birds. He is no sportsman. "My golf stick," says he. "is a hoe." Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: a dependable party wheelhorse, inoffensive, pleasant, industrious (his critics call him "fussbudgety"), of average intelligence and below-average imagination. As long as the U. S. has partisan government, his type will be needed and appreciated for its untiring loyalty and routine diligence. His term
...been widely touted as the New Deal's first ordeal by ballot box. Day after the primary, Pennsylvanians woke to find that they had not only recorded their sovereign electoral will but had also been cast as a political oracle for the country. A host of strictly partisan interpreters at once gave tongue...
Senator Hastings: The submission of this matter to a grand jury was an outrage, inspired by partisan politics of the most vicious kind...