Word: non-partisan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these C. I. O. activities, John L. Lewis continued on his way to an ultimate aim beyond unionism, the creation of a Labor Party. Last week in Washington he, Sidney Hillman and Major George L. Berry held a council of war about the future of their Labor's Non-Partisan League which this year supported Roosevelt, which in 1940 hopes to go its own way. In the back of many a Labor man's head is the perfectly serious question whether John L. Lewis may not some day be President...
...fairness to non-partisan Press (not a fencesitter) believe you should mention a National daily newspaper, the Christian Science Monitor, which, for the uninformed, is not a religious paper but a sparkling newsy daily newspaper whose National and international news reports and editorials are forcefully written and give the layman a truly unbiased picture of our National politics...
...State Supreme Court after being convicted of permitting the use of relief funds for political purposes, who last year on his third trial of that charge got himself acquitted, who last summer lost in the Republican primaries to Governor Welford who led the more conservative element of the Non-Partisan League. Fighting an uphill fight, with Senator Gerald P. Nye campaigning against him, the final count gave him only 97,000 of 271,000 votes cast, but a 2,000-vote plurality which assured North Dakota of two more years of sensational Governorship. In the same election North Dakota...
...proclaimed from the start that his Party's ambition was to lose its identity in a national Farmer-Labor Party in 1940. Last week in Chicago the Socialist Party's national executive secretary and 1936 campaign manager, Clarence Senior, summoned the pro-Roosevelt Labor's Non-Partisan League to begin building a Farmer-Labor Party at once...
...with "Join the Volunteers." Recruiting offices were established on the 17th floor of the Tribune Tower, ballyhoo appeared daily in the Tribune, and by last week the Volunteers claimed 1,000,000 members. That figure was obtained by confusing the Tribune Volunteers, which Publisher McCormick insists is a strictly non-partisan organization, with the "Republican Volunteers for the Winning of the West," organized by Republican national headquarters. Guesses at the membership of the McCormick organization, which has branches in Manhattan, Detroit and Philadelphia, range from 10,000 to 50,000. Rhymed Chicago Times Columnist Gail Borden...