Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This mixed sextet announced the formation of the American Liberty League, which, following the custom of the day, promptly became known as ALL. The purpose of this "nonpartisan organization" was "to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States, and to gather and disseminate information that 1) will teach the necessity of respect for the rights of persons and property as fundamental to every successful form of government, and 2) will teach the duty of government to encourage and protect individual and group initiative and enterprise, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire property...
...months of February and March, 1935, for a practical experience designed to supplement classroom study of political science in the preparation for leadership in public affairs. Each student will serve as an apprentice to a government official, receiving instruction at the same time. The Institution is a nonpartisan, privately financed organization. The American political arena is desperately in need of young men specially trained for governmental positions and free from entangling alliances with party bosses and machines...
...Hoover were reelected? . . . Let no one deceive himself. Mr. Hoover has destroyed the possibility of any co-operation with the next Congress . . . because he has broken the agreement which was at the base of the whole program. He has made a partisan thing out of a nonpartisan grant of power. . . . It was a dangerous experiment to grant these powers and only the most scrupulous respect for the trust which they implied could have justified their continuation...
...when Hugh Bancroft of the Wall Street Journal told them that "in all probability the economic crisis has passed." They agreed thoroughly when he spoke against high taxes and said, "The cost of government constitutes the gravest obstacle to economic recovery." At dinner the members forgot that they were nonpartisan. Cheers drowned out hisses when Rubberman Firestone urged rhem to "set yourselves to stem the swelling tide . . . and work for the re-election of Mr. Hoover so that the advance of business may continue...
Sure Hoover-131, including Iowa, Kansas and California. Doubtful Hoover-153, including New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Wisconsin. Sure Roosevelt-168, including Missouri. Doubtful Roosevelt-79, including Indiana, Illinois, Washington, Nebraska. Total: Hoover-284; Roosevelt-247. Vigilantly nonpartisan, TIME will make no guess at the result of the election, take no sides in the campaign, report the political facts as they develop without fear or favor for either candidate...