Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presented last week with an omnibus bill into which a special committee had dumped a quarter-billion dollars worth of proposed chips and shavings from the government's lumber yard. Many of its items were approved by President Hoover as part of his "national economy program." As a non-partisan measure it was offered as a "rider" to the legislative appropriation bill...
...Republican administration and the Smith proposals, and an intelligently organized, well buttressed program of his own. Nothing would have done more to dispel the stigma of demagogy than a speech of such a nature. But Mr. Roosevelt remained content to base his criticism of the Republican administration on partisan generally; his own proposals were of a platitudinous, wholly unconvincing nature. Mr. Smith's suggestions, moreover, were ignored, and Mr. Roosevelt patently refused to do battle with his accuser, referring to him only in regard to his "distinguished" service as governor of New York...
...justice of that charge. The revealing experience of a long presidential campaign has not dealt kindly with the squire of Hyde Park. The efficient executive who was once regarded as a progressive, strong official has shown himself, on this occasion at least, a man who appeals to partisan passions by platitudes, by stirring quotations,-in short, a demagogue. If Mr. Roosevelt hopes ever to grace the White House he must display to a new critical people far more recommendation than an unenviable "ability to make melodic noises and give the impression of passionately and torrentially moving onward and upward while...
...Democratic free-for-all. C. As the guest of Lucky Strike cigaret's radio hour, Governor Roosevelt last week broadcast to the nation his first political speech as a Presidential candidate. Excerpts: "The present condition of our national affairs is too serious to be viewed through partisan eyes for partisan purposes. . . . Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo because he forgot his infantry. The present Administration in Washington has either forgotten or it does not want to remember the infantry of our economic army. These unhappy times call for plans . . . that build from the bottom up and not from...
...Harvard Liberal Club has given as opportunity for eminent men of radical opinions to express themselves. But it has been non-partisan on many issues and has not had practical accomplishments as its immediate goal. The Student League, however, has set before itself definite concrete purposes: among its "demands" are unemployment insurance for college graduates who do not find positions, state scholarships for needy students, and the abolition of faculty interference in extra-curricular activities. Among other things it proposes a defense of the U.S.S.R. and an "exposure of the constant trend in America towards a Fascist reign by capitalist...