Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radical Partisan. Ives was born Jan. 24, in 1896, in upstate Bainbridge, the only child of a moderately well-to-do coal "and feed merchant. After two years at Hamilton College, he went off to serve in World War I as an infantry lieutenant in France. After the war he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hamilton, settled briefly in Brooklyn with his wife and infant son. Ives had a hard time stretching his $100-a-month salary as a bank clerk to cover the family bills, became an embittered, somewhat radical partisan of the underprivileged. When another bank offered...
...YORK POST, most partisan Fair-Deal paper in the East, says the Democratic maneuver on the antisubversion bill was "a retreat without honor...
...Belgian Foreign Ministry, Mendes began: "I could have put EDC as it stood to a vote in the National Assembly, but I am convinced it would have failed. The fact that I have re-examined the problem . . . proves, I hope, that I am a European and a partisan of European union...
...rider designed to "outlaw" the Communist Party, a proposition opposed by Attorney General Brownell and FBI Director Hoover on the ground that it would drive Communists underground. This surprise move was sprung by Wayne Morse and two Democrats, Minnesota's Humphrey and Massachusetts' Kennedy, as a partisan response to McCarthyite charges that Democrats are soft on Communism. Michigan's Homer Ferguson pointed out that the rider merely outlaws a name, does not cope with overt subversive acts. "What conduct would the Senator make illegal by his amendment?" he asked Humphrey...
...have never read such a sickening . .. and unfeeling . . . piece ... I certainly agree with your opinions on McCarthy, but when you say that Oppenheimer puts his judgment above the law and "he has a basic disrespect for security regulations," it seems to me that you are not only playing partisan Republican politics, but you are submitting yourselves to the . . . greatest degree of misunderstanding...