Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disagreed with these figures. He thought the House bill would produce only $997,400,000 in new revenue and estimated Budget economies at only $125,000,000. If he was right, the Budget would still be off balance by some $88,100,000. Speaker Garner raised the cry of "partisan politics" against his good friend Secretary Mills, accused him of "juggling" figures to suit his own economic prejudices. But most of Washington knew that the dispute was largely academic because estimating revenue at long range is largely guessing in the dark, with the chief factors of economic life beyond prediction...
...times. His position has not changed, but he is sufficiently a realist to recognize the folly, and the constitutional impossibility, of our entering the League until a vast body of sentiment in the country approves that action. For that reason he opposes a Democratic party endorsement as a new partisan division would throw the matter back into the political bickerings of 1920. Nevertheless, exceptional opportunities would exist for a president to aid in the formation of a more favorable public opinion...
...Less partisan observers found public sentiment more favorable to President Hoover than it was a year ago, attributed it to popular approval of recent Hoover-sponsored measures against Depression, popular disapproval of malicious attacks on the President by political enemies. Physically the President appeared a little greyer, a little more serious of mien than he was at the two-year mark but in excellent health...
...time I give an opinion on anything-tariff, taxes, the Mormon Church or pigsticking in Argentina- somebody says, 'Well the blink-blank! I'm against him. . . .' I've no intention of making a declaration on any question with which Congress does not have immediate concern." Partisan rowing later spread from House to Senate where New Hampshire's Moses sarcastically "marvelled at the moderation with which Mr. Garner began his campaign for the Presidency." Senate Democrats pounced into the fray and the whole Capitol rumbled and roared with the stridencies of party warfare. Just as President...
...unearthed the evidence against him, Counsel Samuel Seabury of the Legislative investigation, went to Cincinnati. Addressing the City Charter (Reform) Committee, he took a thrust at Governor Roosevelt for failing to oust Farley sooner, flayed Tammany corruption, sounded a national note which some observers interpreted as a non-partisan bid by Inquisitor Seabury for the Presidency. "[Tammany] now reaches out," said he, "to use its influence in support of some candidate who will be friendly to it, if indeed, he does not openly wear the stripes of the Tammany Tiger...