Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high point of Matthews' pre-Cuba career came during the Spanish Civil War, in which he was outspokenly partisan for the Communist-backed Loyalist forces. At one point he was reproached by Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger for having made the Loyalist situation appear brighter than it was. Recalled he, in his 1946 book, The Education of a Correspondent: "Even then, heartsick and discouraged as I was, something sang inside of me. I, like the Spaniards, had fought my war and lost, but I couldn't be persuaded that I had set too bad an example...
...Name Endorsement. Warren's dislike for "a fellow named Nixon" began with Nixon's first race for Congress in Southern California in 1946. It picked up steam after Nixon's election, because Warren, in his campaign for Governor, was virtually nonpartisan, while Nixon was enthusiastically partisan and attracted the support of Southern California Republicans who wanted to build a permanent party organization...
...clangor of political strife resounded in Washington last week-not Democrats attacking Republicans, or vice versa, but Democrats flailing at Democrats. With time running out on the first session of the 86th Congress, Democrats exploded with pent-up frustration at their inability to make a partisan record and get hold of an issue. Their No. 1 target: their own shrewd, well-tailored Senate majority leader, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...fight it out on those terms." Political opponents, especially those who wear their ambitions on their sleeves, find it dangerous to criticize a President with a clear claim to serving the national interest without hope of electoral reward. If, for example, Democratic presidential hopefuls were to launch a plainly partisan attack, the President, says a White House aide, could "make them look cheap-simply cheap." And it is from that same vantage point of obviously working for the good of the U.S., not of Dwight Eisenhower, that he has fought -with success, so far-for a balanced budget...
...years on end two pleas have characterized the plaints of Washington reporters and the criticisms of them: freedom from partisan editors and publishers and freedom of information. Drew Pearson, writing anonymously back in the Thirties, called for a purge of "business and money-drawer domination" of the American press. Harry Truman used to tell White House reporters that he realized they couldn't help the slant which their editors made them put into their copy. Adlai Stevenson favored the term, "one-party press." And, to meet the other complaint, the press now has a Congressional subcommittee to hear its demands...