Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...swing naturally into line with the Norris-La Follette Insurgent faction of the Senate G. O. P. He exhibits no capability as a minority party leader. His votes are generally independent, sometimes freakish (he was the only Democrat to vote against the special session adjournment). A good partisan, he flays the Old Guard and what he calls G. O. P. "imperialism" so vigorously that many a conservative mistakes him for a radical. In industry and intelligence he is above the Senate average. His term expires March...
Despite the fact that Judge McCormick had lately sat on the U. S. bench in Manhattan, had there issued many a Dry padlock order against Broadway night clubs, Senator Harris cried: "Just what I feared! . . . An encouragement to violations of the law. . . . A partisan against Prohibition unfit to hold office on the commission. . . . Prohibition forces will be greatly disappointed if the President does not remove this...
...Kreger insinuates that the editorial already mentioned was "a partisan attempt to 'whitewash' the acts of the demised, but not lamented, rowing committee." The writer of the editorial had never discussed, directly or indirectly, with anyone who had ever served on the rowing committee, the subject of graduate interference, and no one who has ever been a member of the committee knew about the editorial until it was printed. If there was any whitewashing, no one ever connected with the rowing committee asked to have it done. --Harvard Alumni Bulletin...