Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they arrived in Washington over the weekend, Democrats were still divided on two important points of strategy: 1) Should they make a partisan issue of foreign policy? 2) Should they attack President Eisenhower directly? In both cases the older, cooler heads were still saying no, and the younger, hotter heads were saying yes. Whatever view prevailed (the noes had it last week), there will be a heavy overtone of individual and party politics on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill throughout the second session of the 84th. It is likely to last until the Democrats hurry to Chicago...
...Green will be looking for its first win over the varsity and should be encouraged by the Crimson's decreased manpower plus the advantage of playing on their home court before a partisan crowd...
...second half was so rough, according to official reports of the game, that many players were "badly used up in the fierceness of the play." Bob Sedwick, Crimson tackle, later said the 30,000 fans in the partisan stands "reminded me of scenes described by Charles Dickens of the French Revolution...
...slower but no less fervent in its political affiliations. Although it did not back Truman in 1948, it allowed its top men to aid the Democrats on an unofficial basis. The struggle to repeal the Taft-Hartley Bill made the actions of the LLPE and the PAC even more partisan and, in 1952, both AFL and CIO conventions formally approved Stevenson. American labor had finally, and perhaps irrevocably, entered the ground upon which it had feared to tread...
...campaign season warmed up, such criticism was inevitable. So, too, was the Republican reaction, which consisted mostly of insisting that foreign policy, as a bipartisan matter, should be placed out of bounds to partisan political debate. Thus both President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon praised as an example of high statesmanship a recent plea by Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George for a continued "nonpartisan American foreign policy." Republican Harold Stassen, returning from three weeks in Europe, wore a pained expression as he said that Stevenson's criticisms have "raised and stirred up question marks all over...