Word: partisans
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...George V, King & Emperor. The Church of England prayer book schism had suddenly yawned into a wide abyss. On which side stood the Sovereign? If on both, could he long maintain so wide a straddle? Leaders on both sides, harassed His Majesty, last week, by despatching hundreds of partisan appeals to the royal winter residence, Sandringham House, Norfolk. What to decide...
...young nation looking for guidance. Consequently, in view of the abominations perpetrated under the name of the common law judges of Great Britain and the popular prejudice of the times against them, it is small wonder that the American attitude of regarding the unrestrained common law judge as a partisan monster should be formulated. The successive steps which have relegated him to the level of the practitioners in his court are only logical ones for a nation desiring personal liberty above all things...
...Dillon's hands. With Senators-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania and Smith of Illinois off the floor, the Republicans mustered only 46 votes, requiring the vote of Farmer-Laborite Shipstead (Minnesota) to bring them even with the 47 Democrats; and the vote of Vice President Dawes to break a partisan deadlock. Now the Democrats were reduced to 46, and the Republicans stood to gain a seat in Governor Dillon's appointee...
...Mexico, the expectation was that Governor Dillon would not avail himself of his partisan opportunity, but would call a special election, that having been the course followed when Senator Albert Bacon Fall was called to be President Harding's Secretary of the Interior...
...house, portended. All those present were "Wets." They called themselves the Moderation League, Inc. They would not tell precisely what they talked about. All they would say was that the Moderation League Inc., without superseding Captain Stayton's A. A. P. A., would promote a national non-partisan movement to clarify Prohibition's place in 1928 election platforms...