Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury Mills are about of a size. His clothes are neat but distinctive. His hair is thinning on top. He carries his head tilted to one side. His public manners are easy, gracious. He makes a good forceful speech, never too long. He smokes cigarets. No blind partisan, he is respected by Republicans and Democrats alike lor his intelligence, his parliamentary fairness, his industry. Outside Congress: In Washington he lives modestly at The Highlands Apartment, also has a home at Americus. He is a relatively poor man, with little beside his Congressional salary, now cut from...
Oats in Gas Tank. Amid these partisan attempts to create a personality issue out of the Speaker, Pundit Walter Lippmann delivered his Olympian opinion in the New York Herald Tribune...
...compare the vague, indefinite suggestions of the Democratic candidate with the definite, logical, all-inclusive, constructive, non-partisan reconstruction program of Herbert Hoover. . . . The Democratic party has no plans nor policies of its own. . . . There is a deadly parallel between 75% of its platform and the words and policies of the Hoover Administration. . . . The Governor [said] : 'I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people.' Just what is this new deal...
...Hurley speech touched off a short, sharp outburst of partisan oratory in the Senate. Exclaimed Arkansas' Senator Robinson, Democratic floor leader...
...Hoover," got a titter when he said he had looked up "smear" in the dictionary and found it meant "to anoint a dead body with sacred oil before burial." Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army prayed. Mayor Cermak rumbled a speech of welcome which soon descended to a partisan harangue. Then Senator Barkley, tall, paunchy, all in white, launched vigorously into his keynote address (see p. 12). Most delegates, mindful of the fight to come, did not overtax their lungs or palms with applause...