Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This reaction from a Democratically partisan crowd is not surprising. Kelly has been an indefensible blight on the Dever administration. Even the casual headlines reader cannot escape learning about Kelly's machinations. Last winter, headlines for weeks and weeks clamored about allegations over nefarious activities concerning land damage settlements handled by Kelly's private office. The charge was a serious one--a district attorney accused Kelly of receiving a pay-off from a judge. Lack of evidence later exoncrated Kelly, but the judge was disbarred. In the midst of the controversy, Kelly sent state troopers to take over the accusing...
...most significant speeches of his campaign, Dwight Eisenhower chose a forum without radio or television, gave a talk untouched by partisan politics. The occasion: the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial dinner, where he spoke at the invitation of New York's Cardinal Spellman. (Governor Stevenson, also invited, had to decline because of campaign schedules.) Eisenhower's subject: the U.S. in the world...
...highly partisan professors hurled political barbs at each other's presidential candidate before an overflow audience of 350 in the Kirkland Junior Common Room last night. However, both Samuel H. Beer and McGeorge Bundy, associate professors of Government, agreed that foreign policy considerations were the vital issue in this campaign...
Stevenson, on the other hand, would be unable to unite the nation, Bundy thinks. "This would be particularly true," he added, "if the rumor is correct in suggesting that Stevenson would pick as Secretary of State Averell Harriman, who has aroused widespread and legitimate annoyance by engaging in bitterly partisan acts while holding an office dependent on bi-partisan support...
Although the mayor of Cambridge during the city's first reform years in 1941 and 1942, Sennott was always independent of the Cambridge Civic Association--a non-partisan reform organization...