Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Bar Association prides itself on being nonpartisan in matters political. Last week it had invited Thomas D. Schall, Minnesota's blind Senator, bitterest enemy of Franklin D. Roosevelt, to address it at luncheon. Senator Schall launched into his favorite tirade against Roosevelt: the dictator, who has crushed free speech, free press, free broadcasting. He told how recently, after he had made a similar speech, a toast to the President had been proposed. Turning his sightless eyes on his lawyer listeners he cried...
...Democratic Party's skull-capped candidate for Vice President in 1924. When his third term as Governor ended last January, Brother Bryan announced that he was retiring to tend his three farms. Last week, at 68, by polling more votes than any other candi date in a nonpartisan primary, he won a nomination for Mayor of Lincoln...
...that the Administration had not been able to keep its rosy collective bargaining promises of two years ago. In the Senate the decision also had an effect on Senator Wagner's National Labor Relations Bill, whose fundamental premises had suddenly been given a set of question marks. Only nonpartisan who saw a silver lining for President Roosevelt & friends in the Weirton case outcome was Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "What has been attempted under NRA . . . is a mixture of good and evil. . . . It was bound to break down. It has broken down. And the courts will do an historic...
...making, to the country. To Manhattan to address the National Republican Club went Correspondent Krock-"Arthur"' to the Presi-dent-of the great New York Times. As befitted the No. i Washington man of an independent Democratic paper, Arthur Krock attempted to present a first-hand nonpartisan picture of White House press relations. Yet before he had done he spoke in a way that may well have wounded a thin-skinned President. Describing what takes place at a White House press conference, Mr. Krock said...
...second time in seven months a Governor of North Dakota last week called armed soldiers into the skyscraper Capitol at Bismarck to protect himself against forcible ejection from office. With a court action to oust him already in progress, the Nonpartisan League-controlled House had impeached Democratic Governor Thomas Hilliard Moodie twelve days after his inauguration for unspecified "crime, corrupt conduct, malfeasance and misdemeanors in office." Everyone knew the real charges were that: 1) having admittedly voted in Minnesota in 1930, he was ineligible for the governorship under North Dakota's constitutional requirement of five years' continuous residence...