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...Detroit's nonpartisan mayoralty primary, big, burly Richard Truman Frankensteen, 38, vice president of the C.I.O.'s mighty United Automobile Workers, not only won nomination, but, to the surprise of everybody, led the field of seven. His closest opponent was three-term Mayor Edward J. Jeffries Jr., who will oppose Frankensteen in the run-off November election...
Stimson, 77, soldier of World War I, veteran of many a diplomatic battle, enlightened and nonpartisan elder statesman. Henry Stimson was astonished by the "shopworn catchwords and objections." Said...
...minor party members) to pass, the bill, 345-to-18. (The dissenters were all G.O.P. bitter-enders.) The overwhelming vote was due to: 1) educational spadework by the Treasury Department; 2) sure-footed maneuvering by Speaker Sam Rayburn; 3) sober second thoughts by Republican House leaders. The nonpartisan character of the vote prompted a happy comment from President Truman: Congress would really be ready for the peace treaty...
...shall not be able perhaps to secure all that we desire," Tom Connally said. "We shall not be able to bring back perfection." But Senator Connally wanted to emphasize two facts: 1) San Francisco will be nonpartisan, so far as the U.S. delegation is concerned; 2) Dumbarton Oaks will be liberalized. Moved by the solemnity of the occasion and of his own words, Tom Connally sat down in tears...
There was no doubt among Chicago newsmen that Knight had purchased an opportunity; to go down the middle between the New Dealish Times and Sun and the arch-conservative Tribune and Moscow-scared Herald-American. Unbiased news, nonpartisan, liberal editorials were the foundations of Knight success in Akron, Miami, Detroit. There would be plenty of tough competition in Chicago, but Jack Knight has a habit of winning...