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American and Republicans
American trade policy relied on high tariffs under the Republicans, and reciprocal trade agreements under the Democrats, but in any case exports were at very low levels in the 1930s.
Abraham Van Buren supported the American Revolution and later the Jeffersonian Republicans.
* Radical Republicans, a member of an influential group of American politicians during the Civil War reconstruction
A report in The Guardian, however, suggested that American politics has been " stuck in a two-way fight between Republicans and Democrats " since the Civil War, and that third-party runs had little meaningful success.
Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist ran for Congress with the American Independent Party in 2005, but has since rejoined the Republicans.
" Most Democrats and Republicans in the Senate voted for an $ 11. 5 billion tax cut for American citizens and American business ," he cried, " but not Senator Goldwater.
As a compromise, the Republicans nominated Nathaniel Prentiss Banks, an American candidate.
" Paul Krugman and the American Historical Association defended Cronon against what they characterized as intimidation by Wisconsin Republicans.
The apparent reasonableness of Republicans garnered much important American goodwill.
Upon passage of the new GI Bill President George W. Bush stated " Our nation has no greater responsibility than to support our men and women in uniform-especially because we're at war ," ... " This bill shows the American people that even in an election year, Republicans and Democrats can come together to support our troops and their families ," which highlighted that the new GI Bill had been overwhelmingly supported by both parties in the U. S. Congress.
The novel is based on his experiences during the Spanish Civil War, with an American protagonist named Robert Jordan who fights with Spanish soldiers for the Republicans.
Zinn regularly included it in his lists of recommended readings, and after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, Zinn wrote, " If Richard Hofstadter were adding to his book The American Political Tradition, in which he found both ' conservative ' and ' liberal ' presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, maintaining for dear life the two critical characteristics of the American system, nationalism and capitalism, Obama would fit the pattern.
The policy won the support of Republicans who controlled Congress and involved sending $ 400 million in American money, but no military forces, to the region.
This conclusion enraged the abolitionist Republicans and further exacerbated sectional sentiments that led to the American Civil War.
Cato was cited by columnist Ezra Klein as nonpartisan, saying that it is “ the foremost advocate for small-government principles in American life " and it " advocates those principles when Democrats are in power, and when Republicans are in power ".
Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream.
George Neumayr, the executive editor of The American Spectator, a conservative magazine, told the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that " PBS looks like a liberal monopoly to me, and Bill Moyers is Exhibit A of that very strident left-wing bias ... uses his show as a platform from which to attack conservatives and Republicans.
** Following the American Civil War, the Radical Republicans attempted to put a land reform through Congress, promising " forty acres and a mule " to newly freed blacks in the South, which was ultimately rejected by moderate elements as " socialistic.
Describing itself as " America's Pro-Israel Lobby ", AIPAC is a mass-membership, American organization whose members include Democrats, Republicans, and independents.
African American members of Congress were one example, pictured as pawns of the Radical Republicans.
American Jews voted 90 % against the Republicans and supported Democrats Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman in the elections of 1940, 1944 and 1948, despite both party platforms supporting the creation of a Jewish state in the latter two elections.

American and both
In later years Josephus Daniels was to claim that World War 1, was the first in American history in which there was great concern for both the health and morals of our soldiers.
Gossip had it ( for gossip is the soul of Rome ) that a famous American dancer of the time had paid for both the planes.
He is a member both of the National Academy of Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society ; ;
Fear of the competition -- always a great motivating force in the American economy -- makes retailers who do not have suburban operations exaggerate both the volume and the profitability of their rival's shiny new branches.
You may have misgivings about certain aspects of our military establishment -- I certainly do -- but you know any comparison of over-all American strength with over-all Soviet strength finds the United States not only superior, but so superior both in present weapons and in the development of new ones that our advantage promises to be a permanent feature of U.S.-Soviet relations for the foreseeable future.
With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, the most ever used by one team in a series game.
Mr. Herman has managed to mix musical ideas drawn from Israel and the standard American ballad style in a manner that stresses the basic tunefulness of both idioms.
Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.
The Sargasso Sea contains large amounts of seaweed and is also the spawning ground for both the European eel and the American eel.
American stage and screen actress Helen Hayes portrayed Miss Marple in two American made-for-TV movies, both for CBS: A Caribbean Mystery ( 1983 ) and Murder with Mirrors ( 1984 ).
A matai can represent a small family group or a great extended family that reaches across islands, and to both American Samoa and independent Samoa.
Rod Dreher writes the following: “ unshakable devotion to the land, to localism, and to the dignity of traditional life makes him both a great American and, to the disgrace of our age, a prophet without honor in his native land.
Another odd trait recently discovered is that both caimans and the American Alligator have been observed taking foliage and fruit into their diet in addition to their normal diet of fish and meat .< ref >< http :// scienceblogs. com / tetrapodzoology / 2008 / 10 / alligators_eat_fruit. php ></ ref >
At the time both South African and South American plants were placed in the same genus ; subsequently they were separated into two different genera.
Australian English likewise blends American and British alongside native usages, but retains a significantly higher degree of distinctiveness from both of the larger varieties than does Canadian English, particularly in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.
Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.
Conversely, British English favours fitted as the past tense of fit generally, whereas the preference of American English is more complex: AmEng prefers fitted for the metaphorical sense of having made an object " fit " ( i. e., suited ) for a purpose ; in spatial transitive contexts, AmEng uses fitted for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that it surrounds ( e. g., " fitted X around Y ") but fit for the sense of having made an object conform to an unchanged object that surrounds it ( e. g., " fit X into Y "); and for the spatial senses ( both intransitive and transitive ) of having been matching with respect to contour, with no alteration of either object implied, AmEng prefers fit (" The clothes fit.
One independent group which had been active in NFL exhibition promotions in Atlanta applied for franchises in both the American Football League and the NFL, acting entirely on its own with no guarantee of stadium rights.
This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.
2B Orlando Hudson became the recipient of his second career Gold Glove Award, as announced on November 3 becoming only the sixth infielder in major league history to win a Gold Glove award in both the American and National Leagues.
Soldiers in the American Civil War bought iron and steel vests from peddlers ( both sides had considered but rejected body armour for standard issue ).
Hot dogs and hamburgers are both based on traditional German dishes, brought by German immigrants to the United States, but in their modern popular form they can be reasonably considered American dishes.
American chefs have been influential both in the food industry and in popular culture.

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