Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...President is setting up a straw man merely for the purpose of knocking him down. His own secretary could have warned him against such a cheap exhibition of partisan politics. I say deliberately that nothing more shameless has emanated from the White House in my 30 years' service in Congress. ... I can scarcely trust myself temperately to characterize an astonishing performance of this kind by the President...
Agile Old Guardsmen quickly spread the impression that President Hoover held the Coalition responsible for the tariff delay. The White House cautiously bolstered up this belief by hints that the recovery of Business and Industry after the stockmarket crash was being retarded by the tariff. Every partisan effort was made to discredit the Coalition's management of the tariff bill. The Coalition's defense: The House without adequate debate had passed a tariff bill with exorbitantly high rates; the Senate had to revise the whole measure; revision with fair debate took time. Declared Senator Borah: "Time is not nearly...
...unconvincing way, to belittle the election's significance, to explain it away as a local prohibition contest unreflective of national sentiment toward the Hoover administration. Democrats in Washington minimized Prohibition, their party's rock of schism, joyfully saw in the election only an uprising against an outworn partisan cry of "Hoover prosperity," symptomatic of a major economic revolt against Republican diddling on the tariff and unemployment. Wets naturally could see nothing but a resounding whack delivered to the 18th Amendment...
With the publication of each new scholarly inquiry into the origins of the World War, those whose memories go back to the fatal days of 1914 have a vivid example of the way in which disinterested study and perspective change history from the partisan scream of newspaper headlines to the weighted decisions of historians. It is evident that amid the confusion of reports and propaganda surrounding each day's news only with extreme difficulty can the layman arrive at anything like an unprejudiced opinion concerning the events which are taking place round about him. Nevertheless it is that very opinion...
...entitled to receive its Economic Service and to participate in its general scientific activities. Its purposes are to promote the scientific study of economics and to publish and diffuse the results of its investigations for the benefit of its members and all mankind, all of its purposes being non-partisan, non-sectarian, charitable, scientific, and educational, and conducted in no manner, directly or indirectly, for profit to anyone. At the close of its second year, it finds itself with a total of 640 general members and 726 subscribers to its publications. Its income from all sources was something over...