Word: nonpartisan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rancorous race relations, Detroit in recent years has been one of the few big Northern cities to escape large-scale Negro rioting. The distinction was not won by accident - unless that accident is Jerome Cavanagh, the outsider who in 1961 toppled an arteriosclerotic regime to become Detroit's nonpartisan mayor...
...certainly right. His top rival in the nonpartisan mayoralty race was Democratic Congressman James Roosevelt. But the Roosevelt name evoked no magic whatsoever; Jimmy was loaded with dough but light on ideas. He put up hundreds of billboards, handed out bales of bumper stickers and buttons, appeared often on television with 15-minute and half-hour shows, plus so many other spots that his electronic omnipresence became irksome. Jimmy's campaign cost around $450,000. Yorty spent less than half that amount...
...Angeles' mayoralty elections are nonpartisan, and while Jimmy, 57, is a liberal Democrat and Yorty, 55, is a conservative Democrat, ideology is not playing much of a part in their campaign. Rather, the race is more an extension of the longstanding feud between Democratic Governor Pat Brown and Democratic Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh. Roosevelt has charged that there is a "sinister alliance between the political machines of Big Daddy [Unruh] and Little Daddy [Yorty]" which "must be stopped and not allowed to take over city government, lock, stock and barrel." Yorty accuses Brown of helping Roosevelt. Brown denies...
...Angeles primary is a nonpartisan preference vote, but if any candidate gains an absolute majority, he is automatically elected mayor. Otherwise, the two leading candidates qualify for the general elections the next month...
...statement on Goldwater's candidacy [Oct. 9] was contained in a sermon as rabbi of Temple B'Nai Abraham, and not as president of the American Jewish Congress, which is a nonpartisan organization. The fact that Senator Goldwater has seen fit not to repudiate the support of ultra-right-wing extremist groups, for example, seems to me a matter of profound concern. I considered it my duty as rabbi to speak out on these dangers. Some of the letters I have received as a reaction to my sermon, containing the most vitriolic and anti-Semitic attacks I have...