Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Partisan Pitches. Once they had wound up, the subcommittee's three Democrats -Maryland's Millard Tydings, Rhode Island's Theodore Green and Connecticut's Brien McMahon-got in a few unmistakably partisan pitches. Straight-faced, they recommended the appointment of a twelve-man nonpartisan commission to go over the loyalty ground again, "human nature being what it is, particularly in an election year." Then they needled Republican members Bourke B. Hickenlooper and Henry Cabot Lodge (who did not sign the report) for not attending sessions regularly, adding that Hickenlooper had read through only nine...
...Siena Polio, the world's oldest horse race,* anything goes. Since the jockeys ride for the honor of the Siena town wards (which bear such symbolic names as Giraffe, Dragon, Unicorn and Wave), partisan passions begin to rise well before race day. This year Unicorn hired away (for a rumored 900,000 lire) the Giraffe's jockey, a movie stunt rider and a two-time winner named Pietrino. Pietrino, a Polio veteran much in demand, had been known to change colors before...
After the long days of partisan clamor, the Senate rushed through the Mutual Defense Assistance Program, a measure authorizing another $1.2 billion to arm Western Europe and to provide at least $16 million more for Korea and the Philippines. The vote...
Counterattack. Church leaders were not pleased over the belligerent and partisan Maclean's article. In Ottawa, Apostolic Delegate Msgr. Ildebrando Antoniutti said Fraser was "badly informed," his article "evidently tendentious." Archbishop Paul-Emile Leger, who had been trying to pour oil over the controversial waters after the resignation of Msgr. Charbonneau, was rumored to be "unhappy...
...future of medicine in this country might well hinge upon the outcome of the congressional elections in November [when the A.M.A. will be spending $1,100,000 in press and radio advertising to combat Government health plans and boost private plans]. This is in no sense a partisan appeal. There are splendid incumbents and candidates in both parties, and there are socializers and apologists for statism in both parties." Surgeon Cline is a Republican...