Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...show proved that Levine was certainly a lively painter. His composition was clever and his colors bright. Occasionally, when the editorial mood hit him too hard, he began wagging his brush. Then the result was little better than partisan cartooning, e.g., a soapbox snarl at the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, titled Reception in Miami. But when he chose to paint subjects instead of targets-the grimy street corners of downtown America, a littered store window, a peddler's sway-backed nag or a weary tombstone cutter-Levine had something of his own to say. And he said...
This kept on for 64 years until there arose in San Cesario one who could take the challenge. Young Gustavo Sola, a partisan hero of World War II, was known as "Il Corsaro" (the pirate). When the war was over, the 23-year-old Corsaro went with two friends to Spilamberto's priest, who had charge of the cannon, and persuaded him to yield the trophy in exchange for a signed receipt. Detouring en route so the countryside might see, Il Corsaro trundled the cannon home in a handcart, and received a hero's welcome: a supper...
...Partisan Packages. Midway in the speech, some of the brass nickels of partisanship did get mixed in with the golden vision. The prosperous millennium can be achieved, said Truman, "only if we follow the right policies"-i.e., the Fair Deal, including such disputed measures as repeal of Taft-Hartley, the Brannan plan, aid to education, and health insurance...
...months, non-partisan Alexander Diomedes had headed an uneasy coalition cabinet of Populists and Liberals. Last week the coalition broke up, largely because of fat, fatuous Dino Tsaldaris, onetime Premier who served as Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister in the Diomedes cabinet. For weeks he had been on the stump, campaigning for the impending Greek national elections; he had infuriated the Liberals, had antagonized Marshal Alexander Papagos and War Minister Panayotis Kanellopoulos by loudly claiming credit for his own Populist party for the victory over the Communists...
Nearly all the Republicans, even if they were inclined to sympathize with the Administration policy on Formosa, assailed the President for not consulting Congress before announcing his decision. Such a step, they said, sabotaged efforts to maintain a bi-partisan foreign policy. Secretary of State Acheson explained that Truman's haste was necessary to clarify this country's position on Formosa before the eyes of the world. Sound as the President's stand is, however, he would have been politically wise to discuss it with Congressional foreign relation leaders before making it public...