Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next week, as it has been in every election since his first, it will be Dan Hoan against the field. After the Socialist landslide of 1910, Republicans and Democrats wangled through the Legislature a State law requiring municipal primaries and elections to be nonpartisan. No party designations may appear on ballots. Only the two biggest primary votegetters may compete in elections. Thus it is assured that every non-Socialist vote will be an anti-Socialist vote...
...Alexander Kirkland) was a cad, that no matter how far back one probed to fix the blame for his fate, there was no excuse for indicting Society. Meanwhile, the theatre was resounding with jubilant whistles and applause not only from radical Group Theatre sympathizers but from many a nonpartisan theatregoer who had just been given a mighty exhibition of theatrical illusion...
Work done by the Junior Reds last week consisted chiefly of planning nonpartisan youth organizations in all countries which would exert themselves against the Fascists of Italy and Germany, teaming up for this purpose with junior pinks and Christian Sunday-School youths wherever possible in the name of Peace. Few days earlier Komsomohkaya Pravda, Moscow's newsorgan of Communist Youth, sounded a characteristic, un-Christian blast...
...there are critics who are honest and nonpartisan and who are willing to discuss and to learn. I believe we owe, therefore, a positive duty to clarify our purposes, to describe our methods and to reiterate our ideals...
...Shame! Shame!" cried Chicago's nonpartisan lawyers...