Word: nonpartisan
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...Rameshwari Nehru, a cousin of India's Prime Minister and a dear old lady whom everyone likes, took her idea to Indian leaders. Why not, said she, collect cultural, religious and scientific dignitaries of Asia into one grand "nonpartisan" conference to promote the cause of peace and brotherly love? The idea came to her, or was put to her, at last year's Communist-run Stockholm conference for "the reduction of world tension." Cousin Jawaharlal and leaders of his Congress Party gave their consent. Invitations went out to the capitals of Asia. and Indian President Rajendra Prasad agreed...
Berry ran as an independent candidate. Bartle's chief support came from the powerful, nonpartisan Citizens Association, which swept the Pendergast machine out of the City Hall in 1940, has been busily reforming Kansas City ever since. But in his winning (by a 2-to-1 vote) effort, H. Roe Bartle also had the endorsement of the Pendergast organization, now led by James Pendergast, the nephew and pale shadow of old Tom-who did not favor Boy Scout leaders for public office...
Quill, having made his noise and taken his public spanking, voted for Reuther's resolution praising the work of the C.I.O. Political Action Committee in its "traditional nonpartisan manner...
Congress in 1946 established the AEC as a nonpartisan, not as a bipartisan body. It was to be nonpolitical, not bipolitical. In fact, on this first commission there were three men who in private life had been active and influential Republicans. If the country and the Congress intend that the affairs entrusted to the AEC be administered on a political basis, i.e., be part of the Eisenhower and succeeding Administrations, the issue should be faced frankly and the law changed. We should not continue to drift into so momentous a change...
...editor of Foreign Affairs magazine, Hamilton Fish Armstrong, a nonpartisan man who is usually preoccupied with global concerns, sent a tut-tutting letter to the New York Times, taking the Republicans to task on a local issue: "I refer to an unfulfilled pledge made by the Republican Party in 1952 [for] 'a more efficient and frequent mail delivery service.' . . . My [Manhattan] office receives only one mail delivery a day. There is no large city in any other leading nation of the world-and I speak advisedly-where sucb a lamentable condition exists...