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Back-Room Training. Politically, Columnist Fleeson considers herself a "nonpartisan liberal." She got her first real taste of politics early, in Sterling, Kans. (pop. 2,239), where her father had a clothing store and more or less "ran the town from the back room." After graduating from the University of Kansas, she went East and got a job on a small Long Island paper. In 1927, she graduated to the New York Daily News. "There," she recalls, "we learned to hit 'em in the eye. We belonged to the who-the-hell-reads-the-second-paragraph school." She still...
...will build up an unbeatable lead and Ike's G.O.P. bandwagon will grind to a stop. Then selected Democrats will begin calling for Eisenhower to lead the nation against Taftism. Eventually, Harry Truman will break silence and exhort the Democrats to draft Ike as a great gesture of "nonpartisan Americanism...
...Next morning, Fair Dealing Congressman Hugh Mitchell called MacArthur a "demagogue," and refused to show up for a MacArthur ceremony welcoming a shipload of veterans home from Korea. A Washington Democratic National committeeman and the Truman-appointed U.S. collector of customs resigned in protest from Greater Seattle, Inc., the nonpartisan civic group which invited MacArthur to inaugurate Seattle's centennial show...
...Boston, ex-Convict James Michael Curley, former mayor, Congressman and governor, made a halfhearted effort to come back to another term as mayor. Respected Mayor John B. Hynes buried Curley under the biggest plurality in the history of Boston mayoralty elections. Candidates of the New Boston Committee, a nonpartisan reform organization, won five of nine seats on the city council, four of five on the school committee...
Last week Boston voters went to the polls in a nonpartisan preliminary election to nominate 18 candidates for nine seats on the City Council, and ten for five places on the School Committee. Results: all of the New Boston candidates, a complete slate for the Council and the School Committee, were nominated. The committee's candidates won five of the top six places in the school race, five of the top nine in the council contest...