Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Syria and Jordan were teetering between East and West. In Syria conservative elements around President Shukri el Kuwatly had not managed to unseat Strongman Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, partisan of Soviet cooperation, from his job as army security chief, but they did manage to transfer some of his followers out of key posts last week, and felt a little safer...
...Council then voted 12 to 3 not to endorse a letter from the Harvard Young Democrats which recommended that future Combined Charities drives should not advertise in "normally-political publications," since this might "tend to indicate partisan preference" on the committee's part. The letter referred to the committee's advertisement in the Times-Republican during this year's drive...
Although several Council members thought this letter "unrealistic" and saw the ad as just "another medium of publicity," others felt that the T-R was "a partisan mouthpiece in which I don't think we should advertise." Another member remarked that the T-R did no harm, since "many people throw it out anyway...
Capitol Hill the year's sorest political question, Ike's budget, was being fought out on partisan lines. Moreover, up to week's end, the Vice President and Secretary of State both were far away, creating -until Dulles' return from Australia on Sunday-a top-echelon vacuum in the capital. But there was general agreement, even in Congress, that the President's trip was proper to rid himself of a cantankerous head cold...
House High Jinks. Emerging from cob-nosed Clarence Cannon's Appropriations Committee, the resolution touched off a long, loud partisan debate with many a tongue in cheek and many a wink. It is only "common courtesy," said Mississippi's Jamie Whitten, to invite the Administration to indicate where to cut its own budget. Complained Tennessee Democrat Ross Bass: "We are faced with this unusual situation because it is the first time in the history of our nation that a President has submitted a budget for the opera tion of the Government; yet neither he nor his Secretary...