Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citation in public service went to Florida's Democratic Representative Claude Pepper, 67, a congressional partisan of medical legislation for 30 years. It was Pepper, then a Senator, who co-sponsored legislation in 1937 that created the National Cancer Institute, the first of the National Institutes of Health, funded with a then grand budget of $400,000 a year. The institutes, now eight innumber, and the Bureau of Mental Health are provided with a combined yearly budget of $1.5 billion...
...politics; a few thousand votes talk, but not too loudly, to the politicians. Kevin White, whose South End headquarters was across Tremont Street from the Centro, received unofficial endorsement from DeJesus, Molino, and other Puerto Rican leaders. But, in the main, these leaders have felt too weak to be partisan in city politics...
...favor of particular pronouncements on policy. No fundamentalist, Ramsey is a professor of ethics at Princeton and an ecumenical-minded writer on contemporary Christian problems. Nonetheless, he contends that the "social action curia" of the World and National Councils of Churches has re duced ecumenical ethics to a partisan political movement...
...Dickey replied, "Yes, and that's not the first time that's happened. The best letter I ever had on a poem was an unsigned letter with no return address, from New York City. Someone wrote to me and said, 'I recently read your poem "The Fiend" in the Partisan Review. I'm a member of the New York City Police Department--the vice squad--and I just wanted you to know, Mr. Dickey, that I've always had a lot of sympathy for you fellows.'. . . The real unanswered question, though, is what a member of the New York City...
Marshall hopes that the referendum "will stand out from all other polls and petitions" because of its non-partisan nature and lack of connection with any political group...