Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...farm mess ranks as one of the biggest unresolved domestic issues of 1960. In Washington, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson lured Congress into recessing until early August, leaving major welfare measures-federal aid for schools, housing and medical care-to be legislated in a post-convention atmosphere of partisan thrusts and parries...
...House of Commons in the 1958 election. Since their ties with the old Duplessis machine were informal at best, they insist that the Liberal upset in Quebec does not really affect the Diefenbaker government's national popularity. All this is true, but Quebec itself-that proud, peculiar and partisan province-was in for a change...
Biographer Hesketh Pearson (Dizzy, Oscar Wilde) argues persuasively for the opposite view. The Charles he describes in a witty and partisan book was a tall, swarthy man who played a powerful game of tennis, made handsome settlements on his numerous bastards, encouraged science and literature, and left England a happier and more prosperous nation than he found it. Amid religious fanaticism, he remained tolerant and humane, and his chief fault was that he forgave anybody anything. He gained his political ends by letting himself be persuaded to do what he wished. "He had a sense of reality shared...
While reading your coverage of the infamous U-2 incident in the May 30 edition, I became highly incensed at your rather partisan coverage of the political implications. I feel sure that Governor Stevenson and others of his party were'not simply throwing American unity to the wind for the sake of pure political advantage. Has it not always been the duty of the opposition party to criticize and attack policies that it feels are not in the best interests...
...political gag as the election moon waxed bright. The word around the Pentagon last week was that if Nelson Rockefeller believes the nation needs $3 billion more for defense, "why doesn't he write a check?" New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock figured that "the inter partisan confusion could now be resolved if the Democrats would nominate their favorite Republican, Rockefeller, and the Republicans their favorite Democrat, Lyndon Johnson." In the Senate, Minnesota's Eugene McCarthy spotted the reason his favorite candidate, Hubert Humphrey, lost the West Virginia primary: "Hubert told the Protestants not to vote...