Word: non-partisan
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Price emphasized that worship at Mem Church has been and will remain non-denominational. "People do not come here to worship as Episcopaleons of Presbyterians," he said. "Worship here is non-partisan...
...American Friends Service Committee, which co-sponsored the film with the Harvard Square Theatre, advertised it as "the first feature-length film to show the tragic situation in Vietnam." Because it was made by a Japanese documentary film company, the Friends hoped it would be a non-partisan but critical look at the war. But when the AFSC representatives first saw the film, at the public premiere on Wednesday at 2 p.m., it turned out to have, among other things, a narration in English which might have been written by Hollywood under contract to the U.S. State Department...
Romney's political career seems to have been planned and timed with the same skill as the Rambler ad campaigns. He moved from a supposedly non-partisan Citizens for Michigan group to become Vice-President of a Republican-dominated state Constitutional Convention in 1961 and, finally, a successful Republican candidate for Governor in 1962. All the while he carefully preserved a non-partisan facade (the word Republican never appeared on any Romney campaign literature until 1964). The voters bought the package...
...series of political setbacks in Michigan the preceding year: his state constitution was almost defeated, his tax program killed by a Republican legislature, and he was running behind ex-Governor Swainson in the polls. Now he must prove himself to conservative Republicans, who dislike the non-partisan tone of his earlier efforts and his refusal to support Barry Goldwater in 1964. He will almost certainly win reelection. The three Democrats who might have threatened Romney--Detroit's Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh. Attorney General Frank Kelley, and Congressman John Mackie--have refused to run against him, and the likely Democratic candidate, State...
Cavanagh has the advantage of being a member of the majority party and, at the same time, a non-partisan official free from association with those who have been mired in partisan conflict for years. He also has the advantage of having one of the most astute political brains around; if he decides to run, his decision will be sign enough that he has a solid chance...