Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Churchill (Marlborough's great-great-great -great-great-great-grandson ) leaves no one long in doubt that his sympathies and family loyalty are alike engaged: he is proud to be the Duke of Marlborough's partisan. His introduction to his hero is like a flung gauntlet: ''He commanded the armies of Europe against France for ten campaigns. He fought four great battles and many important actions. . . . He never fought a battle that he did not win, nor besieged a fortress that he did not take. . . . He quitted war invincible: and no sooner was his guiding...
...with an editorial entitled ''The Radio Menace." Excerpt: "Radio broadcasting in this country is not entitled to press privileges because it is not a free institution-it is a government licensed instrument which is susceptible to dictation by any administration that wishes to use radio to serve partisan or special ends. . . . "The best it can do, in routine reporting, is to put a smattering of the news on the air, thus distracting interest from legitimate newspaper news service and creating confused, incomplete public thought and intensified ignorance on public matters. "Radio's primary news objective...
...than say that this has never been the case in the past. Reform candidates have always been drawn, and with great force, to one or to the other of the mammoth stools which our party system has erected. Chicago has tried the ostrich device of making municipal elections non-partisan, but in this case the old lines have undergone only a metaphysical submersion. Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world...
...former years, the Inquiry plans to remain a non-partisan organization, with wide ranges of opinion represented on its governing boards. As an organization, it refrains from taking a definite stand on any topic, but it receives at its open forums both liberal and conservative, radical and reactionary...
Yesterday, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania refused to attend a banquet convoked to felicitate the newly crowned postmaster of Pittsburgh. He objected to the ousting, on purely partisan grounds, of the man who had preceded him, and whose term was not yet consummated. "There are," said Senator Reed, "other cases in which this arbitrary removal has been called into action in Pennsylvania." And there are, although Senator Reed did not mention them, numerous cases in other states, as, for example, the postmaster of Chicago, who was uprooted from a useful career in the same bland and cavalier fashion...