Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Congress is in session, the least partisan committee is the House Committee on Appropriations. Its Republican Chairman, Representative Will Wood of Indiana, forgets he is also Chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee and works in perfect harmony with his chief Democratic colleague, Representative Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, who is also Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee...
...those documents and to utilize them in debate. . . . Here is a Treaty perhaps not very greatly opposed on the floor of the Senate, but thank God, it is opposed by some men who believe it is inimical and are willing in the face of press bludgeoning and partisan lashing to stand here and make them fight...
...voting was a rout for the Non-Partisan League's Congressional candidates. In the third district Arthur Clarence Townley, the League's founder but lacking its endorsement, ran a poor third as a lone...
Regular Republican voters in North Dakota-once a breeding ground for political insurgency and the Non-Partisan League-went to the primary polls last week and renominated their three Congressmen: Olger B. Burtness (First District) Thomas Hall (Second District), James Herbert Sinclair (Third District...
...basis of a proposal by Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, the Liberal and Labor parties will pool their "best brains" in a conference to devise "work schemes." Efforts had been made to induce the Conservatives into this conference, and to label unemployment before the House as "a non-partisan issue," but Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin shrewdly abstained from entanglement...