Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some reason, candidates for the Cambridge City Council decided in the last election that most undecided voters were holed-up near the Harvard Yard. And so, throughout the campaign, there was a constant parade of sound trucks through the Square and down Mass. Avenue. They blared patriotic sentiment and partisan propaganda until some students began to wonder if the democratic process was so wonderful after...
...recent vacillations of President Eisenhower on his role in the elections of today and next November show his confusion about his duties to his party, as opposed to the nation as a whole. That he owes something to both follows from his double job as national leader and partisan politician, but Eisenhower is wondering about the extent of these interests and how to balance them...
...press conference two weeks ago, the President said he did not want his office used as a tool in political struggles in any state or district. The Presidency, he said, should be above partisan conflict. Last Wednesday, he back-peddled considerably, stressing his great desire for continued Republican control of both House and Senate and admitting hie would do some campaigning toward this goal. On Thursday, he completed the switch, declaring through his press secretary that he favored election of any Republican, at any time, any place. Remove the party labels, and this last idea smacks of former President Truman...
...Communism is a Christian heresy," "Naziism ... is pagan." To all but partisan Socialists, the similarities must seem more than their differences . . . We are piously asked to remember Soviet sacrifices (for us?) in World War II, but presumably asked to forget that Communism was first the accomplice of Naziism and, indeed, that the collusion of these monstrous philosophies brought about that war. These systems were competitors-not opposites. Yet we are invited to extend Christian charity to the Communists and implacable hostility to Franco, Rhee or Chiang. A curiously selective charity...
Said the President: he is deeply interested in what happens to the complexion of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. At the same time, he does not intend to make of the presidency an agency to use in partisan politics. He has the conception that, although elected by only part of the population, anyone occupying the office is President of all the people. The Chief Executive has the responsibility of attempting to develop a program for the benefit of all the people. His success in framing such a program depends on the caliber of his associates from...