Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fight is a hard one; but we have a strong case and a right cause. Our task is to acquaint every man and woman in the country with the facts. . . . My chief concern now is that the work of reconstruction shall go forward. . . . This transcends all personal or partisan considerations...
...whom Candidate Small is opposing is Henry Homer (ne Levy), an able Jewish judge from Chicago. Years ago his mother legally changed his name to hers when she divorced his father. On behalf of his snaggle-toothed partisan Small, Big Bill proceeded to give Judge Horner a forensic log-ride. Downstate rural clodhoppers gawped, snickered and nodded approvingly when he shouted: "My friends, I don't have to tell you that Levys don't eat hogs. If Horner is elected, hog prices are bound to drop. Furthermore, Jews run pawnshops, and the first thing Horner will...
...Cuban classmate, one Gonzalo de Quesada. When Quesada introduced him to Jose Julian Marti, known as "the Master" to U. S.-exiled Cuban revolutionaries, young Rubens caught fire from Marti's fervor, swore he would get in there and fight for Cuban independence. This book is the disarmingly partisan record of how Cuba finally got quit of Spain. His own place in the epic Author Rubens keeps modestly choral: heroes of his tale are Poet Marti, Mulatto General Antonio Macéo, white-bearded, spectacled Máximo Gomez, Cuba herself...
...President was determined to appoint a Democrat, thus making a majority of the R. F. C. board members of that party.* By turning R. F. C. control, at least nominally, over to his political opponents, the President hoped to silence campaign talk that the corporation was being used for partisan purposes...
...School Board (1914-17). No other famed Socialists, however, seriously contest Mr. Thomas' right to run for the Presidency. One who might, if he were ever divorced from his present job, is Daniel Webster Hoan, now serving his seventeenth year as Mayor of Milwaukee. As head of a non-partisan Socialist Administration, Mayor Hoan has made his city a shining exception in the gloom of municipal insolvency...