Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passing of the last "lame duck" session in U. S. history was a sombre, subdued affair. The nation was too wracked with troubles for silly songs and partisan chatter. The nearest thing to a joke was cracked by Republican Senate. Leader Watson, defeated for reelection, when he announced that he was "going home with the almost unanimous consent of the people of Indiana...
...chain of municipal dynasties. Her example, although not solitary, serves to bring the issues into sharp relief. There is a serious hiatus in the democratic theory of government when it is applied to a teeming modern city, without the increasingly popular device of reserving administrative power to a non-partisan expert. With the exception of a few false dawns in American public life, such as the wondrous Tom Johnson or the velvet dominance of Seth Low, our cities have laboured under distressing burdens of incompetence. But Chicago also had her interlude. To a Bohemian immigrant must go the glory...
Though it lacked the glitter of great names, though partisan Republicans might call it a "small-time" aggregation of administrative talent and disgruntled Democrats might object, sectionally, the Roosevelt Cabinet seemed well received by the country. Most of its members know by long experience the business of government. It presaged good teamwork with a President who obviously would be its master...
Biographer Anthony takes no stock in the story that Marie Antoinette, when a hungry mob was clamoring for bread, asked with cruel naivete: "Why don't they eat cake?" Her brief (298-page) biography is a partisan but appealing argument in favor of Marie Antoinette's humanity...
...Republican Bingham, a "lame duck" who would like to see his name tagged to Wet legislation, attempted to execute a slick trick by moving immediate consideration of a 3.2% beer bill of his own. His motion was defeated 48-10-23 after Democrats hotly accused him of seeking "partisan advantage' But this vote was only on parliamentary practice, gave no true clue to the Senate's beer sentiments...