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Word: nonpartisan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration bill, which the Senate passed and which most Washingtonians wanted, provided for an elected mayor and 19-member partisan city council, and a 14-member nonpartisan school board. The heart of the measure, in many people's estimation, was the automatic Federal payment: each year Congress would automatically appropriate for the District a Federal payment based on the amount the District government could expect to receive if Federal property--ocupying over 50 per cent of the District's land area--were taxable...

Author: By Barbara J. Fields, | Title: Home Rule Dies Slow Death in Congress | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...African Affairs, Jerry Cavanagh was a completely unknown 32-year-old Detroit lawyer. His election as Mayor in 1961 was an even greater surprise than William's victory in 1948, and it left Cavanagh owing little to Williams and the Fifties Liberals, some of whom opposed him. As a nonpartisan Mayor with few debts, Cavanagh was free to make a different kind of record and form a different political outlook. His major achievements--improvement of police-Negro relations, a city income tax, and an imaginative anti-poverty program--won him the support of most Negro and labor organizations, the Greater...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: Williams-Cavanagh Primary | 4/19/1966 | See Source »

Changed Climate. A millionaire electrical-equipment dealer, Sorensen served a stint as president of the city council from 1957 to 1961, then dropped out of politics. He was persuaded to come out of retirement to oppose Dworak in the city's nonpartisan mayoral election, handily won with 62.5% of the vote. One of Sorensen's first actions was a dramatic and symbolic one: he sold Omaha's crumbling, 75-year-old City Hall to the Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, moved city workers into an abandoned Elks building, and launched plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nebraska: Silly Hall No More | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

Lower-echelon labor officials emphasized that the federation's Committee on Political Education would step up its activities on a "nonpartisan" basis, aimed only at electing liberals in this fall's congressional elections. In fact, this is what COPE has always done; most of its beneficiaries have been and will continue to be Democrats. Moreover, Meany was careful to steer the animosity away from Lyndon Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: A Family Quarrel | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...issue is clearly nonpartisan, for the "Republican" plan has consistently been supported by a coalition composed in roughly equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans. The sales tax was first proposed almost ten years ago by former Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, and its most vociferous supporter, next to the Governor himself, has been Collins -- a power in the state Democratic party. Furthermore, the bill is not one that pits liberal against conservative, for most of the state's liberals have either supported it, or out of personal loyalty to Donahue, remained discreetly silent. Finally, the bill is hardly a confrontation between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sales Tax: Time For Action | 2/23/1966 | See Source »

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