Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unusually ignoble policy." Said T. R.'s first child: "I've seen many instances of unfairness in political campaigns but the effort of the Democratic party to saddle Mr. Hoover with complete responsibility for everything takes first rank among samples of conscious and unscrupulous partisan dishonesty." Calvin Coolidge fired the Republican's sunset gun by radio from Northampton. "For nearly 20 years," said he, "our President Herbert Hoover has been serving our country and the world. . . . If five Americans were to be selected today to devise remedies for the present condition of the country Herbert Hoover would...
...served through the thick of last winter's bi-partisan Congressional struggle to keep the U. S. from going over an economic precipice. An expert on banking and currency, he packed into his speech all the things other Democratic stumpsters had been unintelligibly mouthing for weeks...
Secretary of the Treasury Mills, No. 1 Hoover stumpster. procured an advance press copy of the Glass speech, engaged radio time immediately following to make a partisan retort. Hearing of this Senator Glass concluded his speech by declaring that Secretary Mills had obtained his copy "by some means which involves a breach of confidence disdained by every honorable newspaper man," and adding...
...control'' was undoubtedly ill-chosen. The Supreme Court is properly divided not as Republicans and Democrats but as Conservatives and Liberals. Roosevelt apologists tried to explain that what he meant was that the conservative majority was Republican, thus "controlling" the court's decisions. Partisan politics has often washed the sacred doorstep of the Supreme Court, if it did not leak inside. Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 quit the august bench to run for President as a Republican. In 1930 President Hoover, anxious to repay his political debt to the South for its vote in 1928, appointed John...
...Beside the onetime Secretary of War on the platform is to sit a man with a shaggy white mane who is running for Freeholder of Essex County.† After Mr. Baker has warmed himself up on the Roosevelt-Garner ticket, he is to unleash all his eloquence as a partisan advocate in behalf of this local candidate, who happens to be his older brother Frank...