Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spiking his debate with partisan references to "vicuña" and "Eisenhower recession," Passman-armed with an impressive amount of detail on the program -got away virtually unchallenged with horrendous buckshot charges. Sample: "The defense support part of this program in all probability has been responsible for more bribery, overpricing, conniving and profit taking on the part of officials and friends of officials in foreign nations than any program ever conceived by the mind...
...dumped Wild Bill because he had been a fairly consistent Democratic voter in the Senate, chose instead devoted Party Hack Lieutenant Governor Clyde Duffy, 67, to run for Langer's Senate spot. Langer (an adopted son of the Sioux Indians), once the favorite of the now-divided Non-partisan League, could not have cared less, filed against Duffy in the primary, showed his craggy face on only three campaign trips, wound up with a whopping victory. One source of his success: an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 Democrats and old Non-partisan Leaguers who crossed party lines...
...Chairman," cried Georgia's plain-spoken Carl ("Swamp Fox") Vinson, "this is the first time in my 44 years as a member of Congress, 25 years as chairman of committees presenting defense legislation, that I have seen a matter involving our national security become a subject of partisan politics...
...York's Republican Senator Irving Ives, labeled Mitchell's outburst "completely inaccurate and irresponsible." With war declared, other Republicans charged in. armed to the teeth with amendments. On the Senate floor, a bill that had seemed to be headed for a quiet passage ran into the noisiest partisan brawl of the session...
Silverman emphasized the fact that the U.N. Council is "a non-partisan organization" but added that Menshikov's appearance would be "beneficial" to the student body. "The Harvard community will have an opportunity to hear and question the Soviet ambassador first-hand...