Word: nonpartisans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ebullient Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, 59, son of the great Thomas Masaryk, is a nonpartisan in domestic politics but a western democrat in outlook. Unassuming Dr. Petr Zenkl, 61, Lord Mayor of Prague, old crony of Dr. Benes, is one of the ablest and most popular of Socialist leaders. Shrewd Antonin Zapotocki, Communist boss of the powerful, well-disciplined central trade unions council (U.R.O.), is in the thick of the nationalization program. Workers committees chosen by the U.R.O. will help the Government to manage confiscated factories, allocate manpower, speed up production...
Moderate Man. Conservative by nature and training (Bowdoin College, Harvard Law School), Massachusetts-born Harold Burton has frequently been a nonpartisan, but non-crusading, progressive in action. A cautious, moderate man (no smoking, no swearing, never more than one cocktail), he is reputed to have as much devotion for the letter of the law as Owen Josephus Roberts, the resigned Justice he succeeds. When the right and left divisions of the Court are not turned arsy-versy, as they frequently have been in recent years, the new Justice may find himself (as Roberts frequently did) the scale-tipper...
...annual message to Congress he had made an equivocal promise to implement the people's will. But the President would have to introduce new electoral procedure, clearly tell the P.R.M. to keep its hands off the ballot boxes, and perhaps even insure a fair count by strict, nonpartisan supervision before his promise became fact...
...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...