Word: partisanship
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...crowds that had come to hear him had been among the biggest of the campaign. Partisanship, in part, had impelled some of his audiences into the hired halls...
Adlai Stevenson's speeches in the final week of the campaign are pointing up the varying approaches of the two parties to the nature of the Presidency. Currently this theoretical question seems clouded with partisanship and emotion, as President Eisenhower seeks to justify his claims that he is fit for another term by his premise that the Chief Executive can and should shun the role of an aggressive leader...
Next week, 35 Senators and the entire House will be involved in Congressional elections. To call for a Democrat over a Republican in every contest would be the epitome of partisanship, but, logically, our desire to see progressive policies enacted requires that we give one party an endorsement for organizing Congress, Many of the Democratic candidates--like Wayne Morse in Oregon and Joseph S. Clark in Pennsylvania--are demonstrably superior in ability to their Republican opponents. But in contests where the lines are less clear, we feel that a Democrat is necessarily a better risk as a national lawmaker...
Students here are evenly divided between President Eisenhower and Adlai E. Stevenson, the New York Times reported yesterday. The Times added that although the intense partisanship of 1952 is gone, students here are keenly debating the issues in this campaign...
...Betting Odds. Some editorials struck a nonpartisan note. The Chicago Daily News looked over the new federal budget, saw stepped-up spending "in every avenue of welfarism," and wondered "just how the 'new Republicanism' of the Eisenhower Administration differs from the Fair Deal-unless partisanship prompts the conclusion that the Democrats would be spending even more lavishly." New York's Daily Mirror took a dim view of the "strange bipartisan silence" over "the deep resentment among the people against high taxation...