Word: partisanship
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Each was launched in an atmosphere charged with surging enthusiasm and bitter partisanship, followed by a mellowing as the new concepts brought forth by the new conditions because more generally accepted and, ultimately, were adopted as basic objectives by both major political parties...
Politics v. Partisanship. In 1940 a caravan of 50 cars descended on her home to persuade her to run for the badly neglected post of state superintendent of public instruction. Since then, she has harassed and goaded governors, both Republican and Democratic. She is a Democrat herself, but when one official told her to "get rid of all those reactionary Republican school directors and you'll get all the money you want," she flatly refused. Says Pearl about her campaign methods: "I have been accused of playing politics. I have. But I absolutely will not play partisan politics...
...vigor," is hardly a presidential candidate . . . He couldn't have acquired the wisdom and knowledge needed for the job in the few short years he has been in Washington. I think the nation's welfare is more important than that of the party. There is too much partisanship in the Republican Party now, put there by people who think only of feathering their own nests by riding the popularity of others. Let's elect someone who is clear of trouble with the "party...
Last week in Oregon, where partisanship has veiled the partnership program in obscurity, the issue came to life in a series of ten lively debates up and down the state between Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger and Republican Representative Sam Coon. Proposition: "The John Day* bill (introduced in the House last spring by Coon) is in the public interest...
...beat Eisenhower is to bang him. Hard. Hard! I don't know exactly when, but soon, soon. He is not invincible. We have plenty to work with. We have the record of this Congress, which put patriotism above partisanship in foreign policy so that he could effectuate the Democratic policy he's following. The Democratic Congress freed him from guys like McCarthy and Jenner. who had the executive branch in their hip pockets. We have the fact that his Administration has slipped on things like Dixon-Yates, Talbott, and so on. These facts are enough to work...