Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business opinion on the ground that he did not have 'practical' business experience. "On the other hand, fabricated and untruthful, charges of a miserable, petty, partisan character have been persistently circulated against him by a very small clique of disappointed office-seekers, at least one of them closely associated with the Hoover Administration. . . . He has discharged his duties with admirable ability, fidelity and success. . . . "Pending the determination of whether or not it will be possible to secure acceptance of the directorship of the bureau by a man of Dr. Thorp's calibre and his confirmation...
...Republican Party in the sense of the men and women who through conviction and custom adhero to that party. It concerns the whole body of Americans who would like to oppose what is now being done at Washington. Since there is as yet no third party and no non-partisan movement in opposition to the fundamental innovations introduced by the present administration, it follows that apparently the only opportunity of this opposition to express itself will lie in the Republican Party...
...Partisan Opposition...
...pity if there is to be no organized non-partisan opposition, for the issue presented goes much deeper than any ordinary eleavage between Republicans and Democrats. It runs deeper and also it outs at right angles across both parties. The novel theories of society and government which some aspects of the New Deal introduce to America are more directly counter to Democratic principles and traditions than to Republican...
Nevertheless, as things stand today, the regrettable condition is that there is no present promise of a non-partisan organization or of a third party. In this condition, those who oppose what is being done are forced to look to the Republican Party as the framework through which to express themselves. The great question therefore is whether the Republican Party will live up to an obligation which is wider than the party...