Word: partisanship
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With the Congress tying itself into great gooseknots of partisanship, there was little for the Chief Executive to do last week except consult, wait, worry about his Administration's legislative program, and attend to matters of ceremony. C. The new German Ambassador, Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz-Gaffron, arrived in Washington. President Coolidge received him, studied him. He was a youngish man, only 44, with the lean cheeks and high temples of an intellectual, the strong wrists of an excellent hockey and tennis player, the sleek garb and easy tongue of a society man. His English was almost entirely...
...contrast to the European press partisanship, the papers here on which the citizen is dependent for his knowledge of governmental affairs deem it best to respect the feelings of the men at Washington, and tell the reader what he likes to believe is true. Revelline in their nonpartisanship, and in the confidence of legislators, the papers refuse to stimulate by criticism. They ignored the maladministration of Harding's term. As a recent particular, see how they minimized Nicaraguan troubles where in a single battle, whether rightly or wrongly, the marines with one loss killed six hundred native rebels. The weekly...
...other large frogs in small puddles. Two States, however, elected new Governors. Three elected U. S. Representatives. Here and there were statewide issues- constitutional amendments, laws, bond issues. From such results, political pundits made halfhearted attempts to draw large deductions. These deductions had to be colored highly by partisanship to become visible. G. O. Pundits said in effect: "The elections of three Republican U. S. Representatives, of many a Republican mayor, and, in Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith's New York, of many a Republican Assemblyman, indicate Republican strength...
OPINIONS. Conditions in Russia, veiled as they are by propaganda, and obscured by partisanship, may well be compared to the next world: one side has it that Soviet Russia is an earthly paradise; the other, that it is quite the reverse. Here are opinions...
...conspirators actually incriminated themselves and to that end gave them enough rope to hang themselves, so to speak. It was hardly possible for him to act before, for prosecution on the mere strength of the evidence he had would have laid him more than ever open to political partisanship in connection with the elections next year, the campaign for which was the basic cause of the revolt. He therefore attempted to dissuade the conspiring generals?Gomez and Serrano?hoping, no doubt, that the affair would blow over, but ready to seize upon any overt treason with a severity that...