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...budget message. Congressmen often load an important appropriation bill with pork, leaving the President the choice of taking bad with good, or nothing. With the item veto, now possessed by the Governors of most of the States, he could separate the sheep from the porkers. Proposed on a non-partisan basis, the item veto seemed to have a fair chance of passage-an event which would make life measurably easier for any President who undertakes to balance the budget...
...Labor Advisory Board of Cotton Textile and the NRA's Mediation Board for Steel & Coal, divisional NRA administrator, custodian of the NRA's bones after its demise, Co- ordinator for Industrial Cooperation, chairman of John L. Lewis' pro-Roosevelt Labor's Non-Partisan League, and finally junior U. S. Senator from Tennessee. Last week New Dealer Berry was engaged in giving the coattails that carried him to eminence a particularly audacious...
President Conant has given no indication of what his decision will be if he is offered the post. To date, his policies as head of the University have always been termed non-partisan, in spite of his vigorous and effective opposition to the Supreme Court Bill last spring...
Although Labor's Non-Partisan League is today generally considered the political arm of C. I. O., the American Labor Party has managed to keep a foot in both of Labor's camps. Of the 250 unions affiliated with it, about 40% are A. F. of L. Executive Secretary of the A. L. P., whose campaign headquarters were a suite of rooms in the West Side's smallish Claridge Hotel, is pince-nezzed, 39-year-old Alex Rose, vice-president and secretary of the United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers, an A. F. of L. union whose president...
...non-partisan primaries last month Maurice Sugar, counsel to the United Automobile Workers, and Richard Frankensteen, U. A. W. vice president and hero of the Ford "Battle of the Overpass." both placed among the first nine of the 18 councilmanic candidates named for the run-off election (TIME, Oct. 18). Three other U. A. W. candidates earned places on the councilmanic ballot...