Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since 1864 (Lincoln's second). The Mills speeches were solid, earnest pieces of partisan rhetoric; they did not visibly arouse the electorate...
...Republican Herald Tribune reported the Whitney campaign on its society page. The Bacons gave a political tea party for 700 members of the Nassau County Federation of Republican Women. Last month at the home of the W. 0. N. P. R.'s vivacious Pauline Morton Sabin, no less a partisan than Alfred Emanuel Smith had officiated at Candidate Whitney's political baptism. The first pitfall into which the candidate tumbled was admitting that he voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928. Son of the late sportsman Harry Payne Whitney, grandson of Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney...
Another non-partisan explanation of the La Follette defeat lay in the behavior of Wisconsin's Democrats. Wisconsin may participate at will in either party primary. For years the La Follette dynasty has had strong Democratic support. Only 17,000 Democrats voted in their party primary in 1930, compared to 450,000 who cast their ballots for Al Smith two years before. Last week more than 125,000 Demo-rats walked out on Governor La Follette to nominate their own candidates?Madison's Mayor Albert George Schmedeman for Governor and Francis Ryan Duffy for Senator...
...Republican Club, in spite of its name, is a non-partisan organization interested in awakening enthusiasm in politics and government among students, Since membership is not limited to members of any political body, all students interested in the election will be welcomed at both meetings according to Chairman Amberg. Announcements about the time and place of these meetings which will be held in one of the House Common Rooms, will be published as soon as possible...
...latter claim, and the demand for return to government by party responsibility that justly deserve closest attention. Last fall an anxious nation placed the present ministry in power for the sole purpose of presenting a strong, non-partisan front to the imminent national financial difficulties attendant on a world-wide depression. It can no longer be reasonably maintained that that crisis is not past. But the Prime Minister justifies his continuation in office by indicating the need for a similar unified government in face of the pressing international problems of reparations, disarmament, and currency...