Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the President also: ¶Nominated Minnesota's Lieutenant Governor Ancher Nelsen, 48, to be Rural Electrification Administrator, replacing Claude Wickard who resigned by request. A rawboned, farm-bred son of Danish immigrants, Nelsen is a longtime partisan of the farmer...
Representatives from six college organizations met last night to form a non-partisan organization to "protest abusive procedures by Congressional committees investigating Harvard and Radcliffe students and professors...
...should attach itself to them. For that might scare off the very silent partners on the college political scene the congress is supposed to attract. Selecting initial membership from the Houses, and Union distinctly non-political bodies, could avoid this. Inside the congress, of course, parties can be as partisan as they wish...
Then fell the news of Stalin's mortal stroke. Republican leaders grabbed it as a chance to avert a partisan brawl. The resolution, said Taft, was not worth a big fight. The Administration began studying ways more effective than resolutions to weaken the Communist grip on the slave nations...
...wrong," said he. "But our central purpose, our guiding light, must be something different: it must be to keep on working positively and constructively for the good of the country. Of course, it is easier to express these lofty sentiments than to practice them. Undoubtedly we shall have our partisan moments. But let us never be content merely to oppose; let us always propose something better...