Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislative road. The Republican minority has had an affectionate respect for him as shown by its participation in the uproarious Garner demonstration by the whole House after Bicentennial exercises. The Garner leadership is called the "wonder of the day" at the Capitol. As evidence of his non-partisan co-operation with President Hoover, the Speaker could point to the overwhelming passage by the House of the Debt Moratorium, the Reconstruction Finance Corp., the Federal Land Banks' increased capitalization, the Glass-Steagall bill (see p.11). Democrats are hard at work upping taxes, cutting expenses to balance the budget. But when...
...Partisan Issue...
...recent statement concerning the League of Nations puts the question of American membership where it belongs with reference to the coming presidential campaign. He wants to see the United States a member of the League of Nations, but he does not want the matter to be made a partisan issue. I entirely subscribe to this position. I have believed since 1919 that our own national interests demand that the United States should be a member of the League of Nations, and I think that it is inevitable that we shall at some time assume our place at the world...
...China Review", a monthly, non-partisan magazine by Chinese students in Universities throughout the United, States published for the purpose of presenting China to the American public in an impartial and friendly way" has been organized by students at Columbia University. P. C. Kuo 3G, of Harvard, is a member of the board of editors and has contributed an article entitled "Japan's Ambition in Manchuria" to the opening issue...
...until there is an informed and convinced majority sentiment in favor of that action in the United States. I am not in favor of a plank in the Democratic national platform urging our joining the League. I think it would be a great mistake to make a partisan issue of the matter. . . . Any opinion I entertain on the subject of America's relationship to the League of Nations must be recognized as merely an opinion such as any private citizen is entitled to entertain...