Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to tut-tut him as a presidential possibility. Soon Mr Baker dropped his League issue like a hot cake assured the country that he would not take the U. S. in even if he had the power to do so, advised Democrats to discard the question as a partisan issue. Most people were convinced that this about-face meant that Newton Baker was a real, if inactive, candidate for the Presidency...
...militarists have their way, General Ugaki will be made a non-partisan premier to lead a united country, presumably out of its present difficulties...
...utter disregard which the advice of eminent economists met when Congress made the recent tariff revision must prevent observers from being to sanguine about the disinterestedness of political partisans who ask the opinion of experts on partisan economic projects. But the new Democratic Plan to relieve unemployment by undertaking extensive public works has received such unanimous approval from economists and should receive such support from public opinion that opposing partisans should be way before they condemn...
...issue before the country is the re-establishment of confidence by ending these delays in balancing the Budget. . . . It is not a partisan issue . . . not a controversy between the President and Congress. It is an issue of the people against delays and destructive legislation which impair the credit of the United States. It is also an issue between the people and the locust swarm of lobbyists who haunt the halls of Congress seeking selfish privileges . . . misleading members as to the real views of the people by showers of propaganda. . . . This is a serious hour which demands that the people rise...
...President followed up his statements to Congress and the country in two ways: 1) He ordered his political entourage not to pick up his words for partisan purposes. 2) He forewent his week-end at the Rapidan to hold two night conferences in the Lincoln Study with Treasury officials and those men of his party who really count in the Senate. At these meetings a legislative program, of which Action was the keynote, was discussed, devised...