Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress reassembled after holiday recess, its more thoughtful members realized that this was to be one of the busiest, most critical sessions that ever sat. The Capitol's serious air was supercharged by an unexpected special message from the President calling for immediate, non-partisan enactment of relief legislation. All the leaders were agreed to put that first thing as far as possible first. But Congress is Congress, composed of politicians. Its opening day was not without an event which contained as much politics as economics. The big story for which the Press was on the lookout during...
...recommendations to Congress there is a definite program for turning the tide of deflation and starting the country upon the road to recovery. . . . A considerable part of it depends on voluntary organization. . . . A part of it requires legislation. It is a non-partisan program. I am interested in its principles rather than its details. . . . The major steps are domestic. The broad purpose is to restore the old job instead of creating a made job. . . . This program will affect favorably every man, woman and child. . . . I appeal for unity of action...
...lynchees were "certainly innocent" of any crime. At Mount Vernon, Ga., black S. S. Mincey, local G. 0. Politician, pressed his partisan agitation too far for the comfort of Democrats. A masked mob dragged him from his home, beat in his skull, left him to die from concussion of the brain. At Thomasville, Ga., black Lacy Mitchell dared to testify against two white men charged with raping a Negro woman. Four men, the defendants' friends, dragged Lacy Mitchell from his home, shot him dead...
...Amendment was achieved through the indiscriminate support of dry candidates. Second we would point out that the Crusaders support wet candidates, but only those who have at heart the welfare of the country, and honestly believe that it is jeopardized by prohibition. In short, the Crusaders is a non-partisan organization placing the defect of prohibition above all party politics...
...amend the Constitution so that the State might spend some $20,000 over a period of years buying up abandoned farms and denuded lands ad joining State parks, and proceed to reforest them. Governor Roosevelt, Tam many Hall and all New York Republicans supported the proposal on a non-partisan basis. Mr. Smith startled his party by a slashing and repeated attack on the Amendment as a "gold brick" designed only to benefit the lumber and pulp companies which had cut over the now-barren territory. He also objected to the proposal's mandatory expenditure each year...