Word: nonpartisans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...began with the assurance that he would not lose his head or his temper. Then, in the tone of a Dutch uncle, he reviewed his Administration's foreign policy. Since this was frankly a political speech -although the Foreign Policy Association is nonpartisan-the President obviously reviewed only the good points...
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...
...themes: the Administration is "very tired," too tired for the job ahead; the Roosevelt Depression left 10,000,000 still unemployed in 1940; he will make no change in the military leadership, and will make the construction of the peace a nonpartisan matter;* the New Deal means confusion, bungling, bickering. And, once again, one of his most effective lines: "On Jan. 20 of next year we shall restore honesty to our government, so that its spoken word can again be trusted...