Word: partisans
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There are tremendous vistas of international complication in the present Eastern situation, and those on the scene, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, Admiral Hough, and the former consul at Nanking, who is rabidly anti-Cantonese, are not those to dictate our policy, for they are partisan individuals, and very possibly frightened ones...
...Seventh Regiment Armory, Manhattan, again proved a purely French triumph. Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon met Francis T. Hunter and Dr. George King in the doubles final; conquered, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. Borotra then whipped Brugnon in the singles, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3. Partisan U. S. spectators derived negative satisfaction in reflecting that the entry list had not included Tilden, Johnston...
...wishes of the cabinet members who had seen Haines at work; it was in all probability decidedly against the desires of the president himself. It means that the administration has placed itself partially under the control of a not too savoury organization. It is proof positive that a partisan organization with sufficient vote-getting power can bully the American government into submission...
...Failed, because of the filibuster, to pass several important non-partisan bills: the Second Deficiency bill, carrying funds of $93,700,000 necessary to maintain part of the army and other Government organizations; the Public Buildings bill carrying $125,000,000; the Alien Property Claims bill; the Disabled Emergency Officers Retirement bill; the Medicinal Liquor bill. (Although the Administration may be embarrassed by the lack of funds in some departments, it can, by shrewd management, make 95% of the year's appropriations run the Government until the 70th Congress meets in December...
...which made unhappy those newspapermen who revere Mr. Sullivan. They could say it was remarkable that a man who writes so much is so seldom wrong. But, of late, too many were saying that he is becoming more of a partisan, less of a newspaperman...