Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Short, stocky, genial, twinkly-eyed, Mr. Ungerleider makes many friends. The walls of his offices are crowded with autographed pictures of Congressmen, financiers, tycoons of one kind or another. A non-partisan in politics, he knows many a politician, spent much time on the long distance telephone during both the Kansas City and Houston nominating conventions. He does not, however, meet any of his friends on golf courses. Mr. Ungerleider never had a golf stick in his hand. And of this eccentricity he is extremely proud...
...with Louisiana's Broussard, the undecided Senator, a Democrat. "Nose-Holding." Southern Democrats could give the condition of the cotton planters as their reason for voting an unDemocratic subsidy, which is what the debenture plan amounts to. But Northern, city Democrats could give as their only reason a partisan desire to put President Hoover in a hole. As in 1924, they found themselves playing catspaw for the Progressive Republicans. New York's Copeland, for example, said he would vote for the debenture plan, but "hold his nose" while he did so. Shifter Nye. North Dakota...
...Kentucky clergyman (Protestant), strong of mind, bold of speech, he will now take prominent place on the political battlements of the capital. Briefly, his duty will be to eye the Hoover administration; to look for, mark, proclaim its errors; to direct against it the archery of partisan criticism until next election. Chairman Raskob prepared to withdraw into the Democracy's inner keep, there to plot great political stratagems for the future, out of the public eye. Said he firmly: "I have no intention of resigning...
...through the National League." Certainly TIME'S baseball fans will agree that newspapers and experts all over the country (with the exception of Chicago) predict a tight race between the Giants and the Cubs- not a clean sweep for the latter. A list of these experts includes non-partisan baseball men and prominent sports writers. Betting odds as the season opens favor the Giants slightly. . . . W. J. LODGE Westfield...
...Ochs was at the station to meet him, to escort him to a hotel where the Press was assembled. It was the Press in a far larger sense than what the President meets each Tuesday and Friday at noon in his office. This was the Associated Press-a non-partisan organization which collects and distributes news, not for profit but for its members' convenience. Newspaper publishers from all over the land were in Manhattan for the annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Most of them went into the hotel to hear what the President would say. Those...