Word: nonpartisans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warren says that what finally determined him to try for the governorship was his utter inability to get along with Democratic Governor Culbert Olson. Many other Californians could not stomach New Dealing Governor Olson either, and Earl Warren shrewdly capitalized on this feeling. Running as a "nonpartisan" (he came surprisingly close to getting the Democratic nomination as well as the Republican), he stumped the length (1,000 miles) and breadth (200 miles) of the state, probably shook the hands of more Californians than has any other man alive...
Detroit's youthful, grinny Mayor Edward Jeffries got through the nonpartisan primaries last week. But-as almost no one expected-he finished a poor second to up-&-coming John Francis James Fitz-Gerald. Reasons for the upset: 1) C.I.O. members voting for FitzGerald; 2) Negroes voting against Jeffries...
Last week that fact was dramatically plain. By a thumping nonpartisan majority, (360-to-29) the House had passed the Fulbright Resolution, pledging the U.S. to carry its full load in postwar international relations (TIME, June...
...House Foreign Affairs Committee (14 Democrats, eleven Republicans), the resolution won unanimous approval. The House will vote on it in September, doubtless on the same nonpartisan basis...
Explained Joe Ball: U.S. foreign policy should not be determined on the basis of past debates, but on the facts of life. The resolution represents a "minimum as to what the U.S. and other United Nations might agree upon." It would pave the way for nonpartisan cooperation between the Congress and the President in planning the peace...