Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negroes defend their homes from a white-trash mob led by a red-headed bully named Mitch, as lively a scene as ever came from the pages of Hugo or Dumas. When the white stevedores rush to the aid of the besieged blacks, the play's strictly partisan audience found itself cheering not for the symbolism of a workers' united front, but simply for a thrilling rescue...
...active participation in politics which the Political Action Committee of the Liberal Club is planning is another step forward toward honest and efficient government. There has long been need for more organization of non-partisan men to conduct a vigorous campaign against the vultures who live off the present political system...
...blueprints on the office-wall, The graphs and the statistical Tables of averages, all Praised him mightily: , "Venite Exultemus." So Author Converse begins a poem on the Depression that might have turned out a satire if her Christian sympathy had not got the better of her partisan indignation. A 172-page narrative in various verses, Efficiency Expert is another indication that long poems are coming out of hiding, may once again come to be used effectively as satire, narrative or tract. Author Converse's poem is a tract in the form of a narrative. The story: an efficiency expert...
...apparently some of them have been talking in this vein. It seems a dubious proposition also that a full investigation of Dr. Wirt's charges will be conducted when he testifies. Undoubtedly, he will be asked to identify his informants and that will be that. Even if a non-partisan committee afterwards carries on their own investigation actual facts may prove difficult to find...
...Youth Movement leaders is about 30. Its organization is permanent and hopes to become nationwide. Slogan of the party in the last campaign was: "Give the charter a chance," based on the fact that Kansas City's charter, adopted in 1926, was designed to create a non-partisan local government, but failed to do so. Termed "young radicals" by the opposition, the Citizens-Fusionists were charged with being a mask for the Republican party seeking to work against President Roosevelt. For its campaign slogans the Pendergast machine took: ''A vote for us is a vote for Roosevelt...