Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June, as Senate majority leader, he had worked with just one goal in mind: the Republican Administration must be made to succeed. It was probably the last chance to reestablish the power of the G.O.P. For that goal, the political essential was party unity. Taft, every inch a partisan and a politician, knew that, and he had worked with all his driving energy for harmony between White House and Congress...
...Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Glenn L. Emmons, 57, a Gallup, N.Mex. banker and longtime friend and popular partisan of the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Ute. Apache and Pueblo tribes in his neighborhood. As commissioner, said Emmons, he will aim to "liquidate the trusteeship of the Indians as quickly as possible," and make them self-supporting citizens...
...revealing discovery. Wrote Correspondent Drummond: "What one-party press is Fritchey talking about? More than half the cartoons [criticizing the Administration] and the clear majority of the editorial quotations . . . are from Republican newspapers. Could it be that the Democratic Digest is accidentally and unwittingly bearing evidence that the 'partisan' press is devoting itself substantially to nonpartisan appraisal...
...Digest, the first commercial magazine ever published by a major U.S. political party. On its cover is a Republican elephant sitting behind a desk reading from a large book titled How to Balance the Budget, while a smaller volume concealed inside is called How to Break 90. Its 112 partisan pages are a light-reading combination of barbs at the Republican administration and an "official" magaphone for the Democratic Party...
...appearances. But its real significance lay deeper: Ike, articulate and perfectly at ease, had engineered a successful new method of political communication from the White House to the U.S. The show provided a perfect projection of his friendliness, warmth and underlying firmness. Within the hour politicos were predicting, with partisan delight or partisan foreboding, that he could make TV a formidable political weapon in the future...