Word: partisans
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...Massachusetts (Democrats) joined the fray for lower tariffs. And in its midst complaints against the tariff law per se were made by others. Dr. F. W. Taussig of Harvard, the first Chairman of the Tariff Commission, an eminent economist and writer, attacked the use of the Commission for partisan purpose. He told a gathering of economists in Manhattan: "The temptation will always be present to use it as an instrument for supporting and carrying out a given policy-one of high duties or of low ones, of protection or free trade...
...House passed its non-partisan tax bill and sent it to the Senate?almost unanimously, almost without a change. So the bill went to the Senate where a half of that body (more or less, no one can yet say) were sharpening their claws to tear it to pieces, prepared to fight over every hair on its body, with the chances nearly equal whether it will emerge the same creature or quite another. But Senate leaders none the less expressed a hope that it would emerge before March...
These and other remarks of Mr. Edge engendered a stormy debate. Mr. Willis of Ohio, anti-saloon partisan, who is tenderly nursing his presidential aspirations, rose in reply...
...vote in each college was taken by either the President of the institution, the student paper, the student government, the Christian Association, or a combination of these official agencies. No votes of minor partisan groups were accepted...
Newcomer No. 4. Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota was appointed to the vacancy caused by the death of Edwin F. Ladd. Ladd was an insurgent, and Nye is probably to be listed as the same, since he is a leader of the Non-Partisan League although appointed nominally as a Republican...