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...Nonpartisan, Cliff Berryman has gone along easily with his paper's editorial policies, taken his fun in satirizing politicians' quirks and conceits. But of Franklin Roosevelt he says wistfully...
...Roger Lapham, who has pledged himself to one nonpartisan term in office, made 70 speeches in three weeks. On a newsman's suggestion, he began calling up housewives at random, explaining the proposal to them in five-minute chats. On the Saturday before election he drove an old-fashioned horsecar, drawn by two white horses, for a two-mile trip along Market Street. The car was followed by a modern bus from which a loudspeaker blared: "I've been waiting for a streetcar all the livelong...
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...