Word: non-partisan
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...strongest ally of "Boston's Original Roosevelt Man" has in the past been Boston's non-partisan election law, which provides for no primary to weed out contenders, and usually produces enough can didates, to split the Curley opposition. Soliciting the anti-Curley vote this time was an ambitious aggregation which by last week had sifted down to Maurice J. Tobin (a member of the Boston School Committee), onetime (1926-29) Republican Mayor Malcolm Ex Nichols and Democratic District Attorney William J. Foley, besides two lesser candidates, one of whom withdrew his name too late...
...American Labor Party was organized in July 1936 by New York leaders of John L. Lewis' and Major George Berry's nationwide Non-Partisan League who thought that Labor in the State was politically ripe for a full-fledged party of its own. In its first appearance on the ballot, it justified that expectation by polling 300,000 votes for Roosevelt and Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. In its second appearance last week, it not only held the balance of power in New York's municipal election but helped elect Democrat Thomas F. Holling as mayor of Buffalo...
...North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, frankly Leftist in sympathy, which sent $197,575. The American Committee for Spanish Relief, an organization whose treasurer is onetime U. S. Ambassador to Spain Ogden Haggerty Hammond, and from which Major General William Nafew Haskell withdrew saying it was not non-partisan but Rightist in his opinion, not only has sent no relief to Spain but spent $30,241 on publicity and administration while taking in only $28,635. This was attributed by Mr. Hammond chiefly to losses incurred with a Madison Square Garden pageant on May 19 which went sour. Bulk...
...election on November 2 is non-partisan in form, and every Bostonian, of whatever political faith, should remember that in voting for Nichols he may not be opening the door of Utopia, but he is at least writing "finis" to a disgraceful chapter in the history of Massachusetts. This fact makes all the more deplorable the recent disaffection of a number of prominent Republicans in Ward 5. Basing their action on a personal quarrel of ten years' standing they have put personal sentiment before the good of the city in a manner which the average voter will do well...
...Lewis' interest in Detroit primaries was immediate. The occasion was C. I. O.'s first major effort to put its own candidates in office. Backed by Labor's Non-Partisan League, now nothing more than C. I. O.'s national political arm, the United Automobile Workers proposed to bid for control of the fourth city of the land. Detroit's charter provides for a nonpartisan primary with a run-off election. Since most of the municipal jobs are appointive the campaign hinges on the mayoralty and the nine seats on the common council, which...