Word: partisanship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Secondly, political partisanship. This causes a prejudiced interpretation of every sentence of the Covenant, and an exaggeration of its shortcomings...
...also glad that the "Legion" is to be non-partisan. Without the least bit of partisanship, but with purely American principles, we can find plenty to think about and plenty to do. It is our duty to lend our support and our influence to purely American ideals. I do not mean that I think America's fighting men to be reactionary in their policies. They are not. But I do believe they are the sort that will oppose certain agitators who uphold doctrines which in other countries resulted in revolution,--doctrines which oppose the system of government under which...
With the hope that the clouds of partisanship, so effectively obfuscating the merits of the new Harvard Magazine, have rolled away, the writer takes the liberty of attempting an objective criticism of the new publication and its apparent purposes...
...experience of the past years that politics and an effective direction of war cannot be combined. As surely as favoritism can never be the basis of military organization, partisanship has no place in the war councils of any nation. In recognizing this fact, England and France have established their coalition cabinets and have made merit the determining factor in all appointments to office. Since a year ago last April, the question of politics in our national Government has been foremost in the public mind. Leaders of Congress and the press have not been slow to lay charges of partisanship...
...them have been due to partisan causes. But the bulk of the testimony points to an honest endeavor at a fair administration. Appointments of men of the opposite party may be a spectacular appeal to the electorate. Fairmindedness, however, demands recognition for a policy which lays partisanship aside and which substitutes a real consideration for the needs and obligations of the time. Let us hope that the appointment of so able a man as Mr. Hughes will be but the forerunner of official recognition of many other national leaders who heretofore have remained in civil life...