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...inattentiveness of California's voters produced one odd result. Grey-haired, mother-looking Bernadette Doyle, noisy and self-proclaimed Communist who ran on a nonpartisan ticket, gathered in close to 400,000 votes. The state job which Communist Doyle sought but did not get: State Superintendent of Public Instruction...
Died. William Lemke, 71, eight-term U.S. Congressman from North Dakota (he listed himself as "nonpartisan, elected on the Republican ticket"), co-sponsor of 1934's much-debated Frazier-Lemke Farm-Mortgage Act, 1936 presidential candidate of the short-lived Union Party founded by Father Charles E. Coughlin and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith (he polled 882,479 votes); in Fargo...
...campaigner, agreed to run again only on Truman's promise of active help). By the sort of happy chance that is possible in a machine-run city, the Democrats' sho.w coincided with a civic "Jefferson Jubilee" celebrating the 150th anniversary of Jefferson's election. A nonpartisan "host committee" was organized to raise $250,000, and Democratic wards briskly funneled contributions to it. Explained "Botchy" Connors, a cigar-smoking ward boss: "If there are any businessmen in the ward, we ask them to contribute a float or something." The U.S. Treasury helpfully ruled that contributions for "floats...
...Store and Cafe on Main Street, and owner of the local telephone exchange, took a dim view of such talk: his wife was running for mayor, his sister-in-law and one of his employees were running for the town board. "They say they're running on a nonpartisan ticket," said Altman, "but, if I know my wife, it will be the labor party. Believe me, we men will really know what labor is if she gets in." Last week the town's voters went to the polls, by a 6-to-1majority voted the five Hope housewives...
What is needed, said Baruch, "is a central 'think body' ... a nonpartisan group which will stay on the job until the cold war is won, a group which would sit in continuous deliberation on the whole of the peace-waging, serving as a central point of decision, weighing all of the many commitments pressed upon us, guiding the best disposition of our strained resources, determining where in the world we are to fight a mere holding action, and where we can achieve a decisive breakthrough-and at what effort...