Word: partisanships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Violent political partisanship in rife...
...pros, so the cons. Meanwhile Washington correspondent Mark Sullivan, writing for the Republican New York Herald Tribune, said: "It requires pretty thoroughgoing Republican partisanship to deny that Senator Reed of Missouri and the other Democratic Senators were justified in asking President Coolidge to call a special session...
...hands, brought by the editors of the Encyclopaedia, Britannica." Democrat readers beamed, folded their papers back gleefully but Republicans were not much alarmed. Had this same lead appeared in the immaculate columns of the Times things would have been different; but everybody knew that the World's partisanship now and then ran away a bit with its common sense. Further perusal showed the analogies to be matters of fact-"seventh in area," "wealth $3,285 per capita," "eighth in rank as a coal producer. . . ." Where except in reference books, such as the Britannica, did the World expect Mr. Coolidge...
...that he is the one possible compromise nominee?that if Cummins or Brookhart were nominated, the embittered supporters of the other would turn to the Democratic nominee, with the possibility that the Republican state of Iowa would elect a second Democratic Senator. But in proportion as the partisanship between Brookhart and Cummins increases, the likelihood of Iowa's turning to an innocent bystander, however well thought of, decreases...