Word: partisanship
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...such invective is a dis appearing art in U.S. politics. This, to connoisseurs, is a pity. But it is being revived with a vengeance in Pennsylvania, where political partisanship runs deep and the stakes are immense...
...resentment based not only on the fact that the Whiz Kids are not members of the club (West Point or Annapolis); the military men feel that they are being passed over and disdained, that their hard-won knowledge is dismissed as obsolete and service pride taken for sentimental partisanship, that their inability to talk the new Whiz Kid lingo is taken as stupidity. The best of the old soldiers long ago tried to get sophisticated themselves in developing and using the advanced weapons, and planning the strategy and tactics of modern warfare. These men think that they will...
...against! Such adding-machine impartiality is not our criterion in picking publishable letters; if it were, we would be at the mercy of systematic letter-writing campaigns. We try in a general way to reflect, by the letters we publish, the numbers, the intensity and the partisanship of the mail we get. But we must also add that in making our choice we show a preference for the letters that have something more to add, by way of argument, or have a vivid way of making their point...
...appointments in areas that are already solidly Republican (and are thus not likely to be swayed by federal favors) or in populous states (New York, Illinois and California) where several Democrats have already been chosen and the party is satisfied. Once this is done, Kennedy's score on partisanship will be little different from that of his predecessors: Roosevelt named 208 Democrats and 8 Republicans, Truman 129 Democrats and 13 Republicans, Eisenhower 175 Republicans and 11 Democrats. The American Bar Association, which has given Kennedy generally good marks for the quality of his selections to date, feels that...
...Republicans and Southern Democrats." The danger: a counterproposal, by U.S. Senators George D. Aiken of Vermont and Bourke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa, both Republicans, that the U.S. Government lend the U.N. the money instead. Charged Lippmann hotly: This "confused raid on the bond plan" was caused by "crude partisanship . . . personal disgruntlement . . . old-fashioned isolationist hostility...