Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test will come again in some other way. The whole NRA policy toward labor has been a hodge-podge from the beginning and, while the problem is by no means simple, the role of the Government has until recently been that of a neutral and not a partisan. When the Government becomes a partisan in industrial warfare, only the resort to strikes has been the unhappy answer, with the public getting it on the chin in every instance in the form of higher consumer prices to pay increased costs of production...
Republican Congressmen, old hands at tariff dealings, were not swayed by the President's persuasion. Immediately they raised a chorus of condemnation, seized the bill as a partisan issue. Senator McNary cried out that it was another Article X of the League of Nations. House Leader Snell called it "the most outrageous demand for authority ever voiced by any Executive in the history of this country." Even Senator Borah found himself shoulder to shoulder with Old Guardsmen when he declared that the bill was a demand that the Senate give up its treaty-making powers...
...This work has nothing to do with partisan politics-nothing at all. . . . We do want you to be absolutely hard-boiled if you find any local person within your own states who is trying to get political advantage out of the relief of human needs, and you will have the backing of the Administration 1,000%, even if you hit the biggest political boss in the U. S. on the head...
...alarm his constituency. Mr. Gill has been forced to take to the political field in self defense against his attacker's storm of criticism. The unnecessarily violent controversy has already made inroads upon the morale of Norfolk, and thrown a specialized and non-political institution into the quagmire of partisan dispute. That a technical prison investigation should be conducted by an auditor is inappropriate enough; but that the newspapers and public should consign it to the limbo of ward politics is grave injustice to a public servant whose honesty, ability, and usefulness to the state have never before been questioned...
...methods have been used for a long time now to get the views of the Committee for the Nation and those views alone before the American people. Discussion has just about been suppressed. The Administration's high hand with the Federal Trade Commission has cowed other supposedly bi-partisan commissions, including the Federal Radio Commission. We are threatened with a licensed press and, according to the published writings of the brain-trust, with a regimentation that amounts to slavery. It is discouraging under these conditions, to feel that TIME is failing us. However, we are trying to convince ourselves...