Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, dour, cigar-raddling William Langer made life miserable for North Dakota's regular Republican organization, caterwauling his way to victory as a member of a theoretically Republican faction known as the Non-Partisan League, and voting anti-Republican every chance he got. But in 1956 the Non-Partisan League split up, part of it going over to the Democratic Party, the other part joining the regular Republicans. In that breakup, the Republicans got saddled with U.S. Senator Bill Langer. And having got him, last week they tried to get rid of him: the state G.O.P. convention voted...
...representative was arranged by the Arab Students Association. The staff of the Worlds Affairs Council made tentative arrangements to hold a press-luncheon for him. This arrangement was vetoed by the Council's Executive Committee at the first opportunity without much ado, questioning why the Council, a non-partisan, educational organization should provide such a platform. It was questioned why the Harvard UN Council, one of the sponsors of Mr. Chanderli's trip, should not hold a press meeting instead. A membership meeting was suggested instead, in the form of a debate for those interested in educating themselves...
...stubborn Djilas, Tito's buddy from the partisan days, Actor Fritz Weaver glinted with the self-possessed fury of a man who is supremely confident that he is right and his party wrong. One effective sequence: Djilas standing before the rapid-fire bursts of invective from his friends-turned-enemies, then answering: "I will not retract a word of what I have said or written...
From 40,000 diners around the circuit and from newspapers next day came a ripple of polite applause. But Republican professionals, anxiously listening, came away disappointed that the President himself had not been as partisan as his Staff Chief Sherman Adams, speaking in Minneapolis, or Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater, who laced the Democrats in Detroit (see below). The hard fact is that the party which controls the White House is going into its 1958 campaign in rare disarray, with no visible political direction from the top. G.O.P. candidates have stopped chanting "We Like Ike." are relying instead...
...Action Party; Rafael Caldera, 41, leader of the Copei (Christian Social) Party; and Jóvito Villalba, 49, head of the middle-of-the-road Republican Democrat ic Union. Together, the three politicians framed a plan for a period of mutually shared noncompetitive politics to avoid the possibility of partisan political strife that could open a way for the return of dictatorial control...