Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even if such plays have a message they proclaim it in broad enough terms to avoid the narrowly controversial or flagrantly partisan. And this is significant, not least as box office; for, if, in the commercial theatre, the historical play is a gamble, the "propaganda play" is an out-and-out luxury...
...elections are mere formalities, the eardrums of the U. S. suffered last week as much as Pennsylvania's. With election day but a fortnight away the magnavox of Politics blared from every stump and hilltop, filling the air with civic sense and nonsense, but most of all with partisan fury...
Died. Henry Bentley, 58, Cincinnati lawyer who first established the proportional representation system in U. S. city government, was chiefly responsible for the city's change from machine to non-partisan government; in Cincinnati...
...prepared forensic broadside of the season into Franklin Roosevelt. Its powder: a charge of lowering the morals of U. S. public life. Just then Franklin Roosevelt's second Peace plea was made public (see p. 9), and Mr. Hoover felt obliged to preface his broadside with a non-partisan salute to Mr. Roosevelt's efforts. Next day, completing Jonah Hoover's bad political luck, his thunder was muffled in obscure columns of the press as the Munich settlement exploded on every front page in the land...
Japanese have nominally occupied all Hopeh for eight months, its eastern quarter for nearly three years. General Lu's description of conditions behind the Japanese lines, allowing for natural partisan distortion, was the more significant because the Japanese are now apparently reducing their forces in that area in order to send reinforcements to the threatened Manchukuoan border (see col. 1). He said: "Our central Hopeh forces now control 8,000 square miles of territory-about the size of Massachusetts-sandwiched between the railways south of Peiping and Tientsin...