Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa, temporary chairman of the Republican National Convention, whammed with his gavel to quiet the vast babble that was filling the flag-hung Chicago Stadium. He had "keynoted" the convention the day before in loud, oldtime partisan style (TIME, June 20). Now in order were several more perfunctory pieces of business before the main (and equally perfunctory) acts of the meeting could be performed...
...nation-wide controversy over the 18th Amendment now distracts attention. . . . [It] is not a partisan political question. Members of the Republican party hold different opinions with respect to it and no public official or member of the party should be pledged or forced to choose between his party affiliations and his honest convictions...
...smart President, to be reelected, must not overcapitalize on his office. With so much power and prestige at his command he must lean over backward to create the popular notion that being President of all the People is his first consideration and being a partisan candidate for another term is only of secondary importance. Such was President Hoover's air last week. Outwardly he took no official notice whatever of the fact that his party was assembled in Chicago to renominate...
FELLOW REPUBLICANS! Out across the crowded stadium in Chicago thundered a monster voice. On the platform behind a bank of microphones stood tall, trim, white-haired Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa, partisan partisan. Temporary chairman of the Grand Old Party's grand old party, he was "keynoting" the campaign to come. Theme: The Depression would have been infinitely worse if it had not been for that "stalwart American, Herbert Hoover" and his Lincolnian efforts to meet the crisis...
...These items were put through Congress as non-partisan legislation, actively supported by cooperating Democrats on the understanding with the White House that no political credit would be claimed by Republicans...