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Milwaukee also elected a new mayor last week: slim, young (35) Frank Zeidler, a Socialist. He will be the town's third Socialist mayor in 38 years and the second Zeidler in eight. In 1940, his late brother Carl, a conservative nonpartisan, unseated dour Daniel W. Hoan, who had been Milwaukee's Socialist mayor for 24 years. Frank Zeidler's victory did not mean that old-line Socialists had taken over the town again. His party failed to win any other city office...
...listeners were literally stunned to silence. In the stillness, Chiang spoke again: "I know that for the party to choose a nonpartisan as a presidential candidate is not ordinary practice in democratic party politics. But it should not harm us to try it. Remember this is all a great experiment for us in constitutional democracy...
Such a friendly, nonpartisan act was a rarity in the session's frantic final week. Both parties played furious and sometimes shabby politics. There were parries and thrusts-over the listing of grain speculators (see Investigations), over interim aid for Europe and China, and over inflation controls...
Despite this friendly admonition from K. P. Chen, Shanghai banker and nonpartisan State Councillor, and similar advice from other well-informed Chinese, Time Inc.'s Nanking correspondent, Frederick Gruin, went (by air, truck and afoot) to China's huge, little-known, mineral-and-oil-rich Sin kiang province on the borders of Outer Mongolia and, with luck, came back with his story. Those of you who read TIME'S account of it in the October 6 issue know that the story turned out to be another important piece in the pattern of Soviet encirclement of China...
...make sure that this is done, he suggested the creation of a "United States Corporation for European Reconstruction." It would be run by a board of directors composed of five "completely nonpartisan" experts, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate...