Word: hacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exercise. He had not yet helped the Republican Party solve the problem of who would be its national chairman for the next four years. Whether he would try to keep Representative Joe Martin in the job or let the post pass to the hands of some willing party hack was a question still in suspense. Columnist David Lawrence, in his United States News, seized the moment to make a wholly unorthodox suggestion...
Hershey, party hack and former State's attorney...
...Robert A. "Battlin' Bob" Townsend '43 and J. Eldon "Hack" Sawhill '43, Harvard's revamped varsity field hockey team will seek to avenge its recent 1 to 0 defeat by Wheaton as it clashes with the Winsor School tomorrow in Belmont...
...Monday night even the blindest party hack could see what had happened. For the first time since 1932 Franklin Roosevelt was in absolute command of the party he, had raised from a 15,000,000-vote low (1928) to a 27,000,000-vote top (1936). The purge that had failed in 1938 was being carried through in 1940. Two years ago Franklin Roosevelt had at last begun to carry out a pledge made to his intimates in 1932: to force the Democratic Party to become the liberal party...
...worse time could have been chosen for such a bill; Congress and the country had no eyes nor ears for anything but Defense. La Follette & Thomas watched the Senate hack away. Trying to save the essence of his bill, Bob La Follette conceded, placated, did some hacking himself. But he did not concede enough to satisfy Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina...