Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cartoonist knows who he is, where he lives, what he looks like. Over the whole political scene rests the gloom of hard times, with the electorate in no laughing mood. Affected by this atmosphere cartoonists are inclined to become draftsmen of despair, replacing good-natured fun with partisan bitterness, amusing irony with glum sarcasm...
...entitled "The Mysterious Powerless Phenomenon" in which Governor Roosevelt, hugging Miss 1932, sped by the Party Powers in an old buggy with empty shafts. Because his work is widely syndicated, Cartoonist Darling considers it his prime duty to jest on all subjects, to produce a smile before delivering a partisan thrust...
Cornerstone of the relief program on which President Hoover is seeking reelection is the $3,800,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. Nominally controlled by non-partisan Democrats, R. F. C. is the pride of most Republican stumpsters. Last week campaign orators were supplied with some mouth-filling figures when R. F. C. reported to the country on its first seven months' operation (to Sept...
...need for economy in government is a belief accepted by taxpayers everywhere. The Economy League attempts to provide non-partisan opposition to various outstanding governmental wastes, notably the overbearing amounts of bonus and other payments made to war veterans of other than deserving character. Opponents of the League argue that if its leaders obtain a significant number of voter's names and support, that even the deserved payments to veterans will be cut off. Such a contention is answered by the statements made by the League's representative advisory council under the heading of specific objectives. It is only right...
...adopt a laissez-faire attitude in the question, and to withhold support of the League is to provide the muddy streams of graft with further substance. Already the League has organized itself in good shape under responsible leadership; economy itself is a non-partisan issue. In supporting the League students will be give further strength to a sound movement that merits their cooperation...