Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 4, 1929 the Supreme Court was composed of six Republicans (Taft, Holmes, Van Devanter, Sutherland, Sanford, Stone) and three Democrats (McReynolds, Brandeis, Butler).* At utterance of the word "control" in connection with the exalted, non-partisan Supreme Court, Republican lawyers throughout the land raised a loud and angry cry against him. To G. 0. Partisans, it looked like the long-awaited "break" by ambitious young Mr. Roosevelt. He was indignantly accused of "slurring" the Court's high character. Two Republican ex-Governors of New York (Whitman and Miller) were publicly amazed and shocked. Paul Drennan Cravath, whose person...
...meeting was more or less informal; rather a friendly discussion, than a series of partisan speeches. Commodore Jahncke, in particular, dealt more with personal anecdotes than politics...
Sirs: Please cancel the subscription of H. Glenn Lewis when it expires. We are disappointed in TIME, in that it is not the non-partisan periodical we had felt the need of, but one using its influence to lead our country into the jeopardy of leadership of a party pledged to the repeal of the 18th Amendment and whose hazardous policies might mean ruin at the present time. . . . MRS. HARRY T. LEWIS...
...easier vice presidency. But he led only a nominal party majority which insurgent bolters repeatedly turned into a voting minority. Officially the President's spokesman in the Senate, he has eaten many a breakfast at the White House but rarely rises to defend Herbert Hoover from partisan attack. Privately criticized for failing to back up his chief, he was once reported to have snorted: ''How can you stand behind a man with St. Vitus's dance? A G. O. Politician to the core, he is forever busy with local matters-jobs for the faithful, greater...
...party country. A Socialist will grant that we have two political organizations, but he fails to see any advantage in this situation when neither of them are concerned with principles he considers paramount. To a man who wants broad, all kinds of soda-pop are equally obnoxious. The bi-partisan system of government is vitiated when both parties have substantially the same conservative platform, as is the case in America. This system has always served to blind the electorate to real issues, and it continues to do that in this election year...