Word: nonpartisans
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...when Hugh Bancroft of the Wall Street Journal told them that "in all probability the economic crisis has passed." They agreed thoroughly when he spoke against high taxes and said, "The cost of government constitutes the gravest obstacle to economic recovery." At dinner the members forgot that they were nonpartisan. Cheers drowned out hisses when Rubberman Firestone urged rhem to "set yourselves to stem the swelling tide . . . and work for the re-election of Mr. Hoover so that the advance of business may continue...
Sure Hoover-131, including Iowa, Kansas and California. Doubtful Hoover-153, including New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Wisconsin. Sure Roosevelt-168, including Missouri. Doubtful Roosevelt-79, including Indiana, Illinois, Washington, Nebraska. Total: Hoover-284; Roosevelt-247. Vigilantly nonpartisan, TIME will make no guess at the result of the election, take no sides in the campaign, report the political facts as they develop without fear or favor for either candidate...
...snubbed by the Republican legislators. Last week he removed the matter from politics. Mentioning "Princeton's unselfish devotion to public welfare," he wrote Acting President Edward Dickinson Duffield, invited Princeton's Department of Political Science and other "expert facilities" to survey New Jersey government, submit "nonpartisan and fully digested recommendations as to where vast savings might be made." Princeton accepted, planned to charge New Jersey nothing...
...closed its fortnight's session at Atlantic City. Rehashed were the six-hour day, the five-day week, more jobs to be made by Congress, the Government's payless furlough plan. The council flayed both Republican and Democratic platforms for being "vague and extremely disappointing" to Labor but, always nonpartisan, endorsed no nominee for the Presidency...
...affiliate with the National Student League. The question arises as to whether such action could be interpreted as being truly liberal. Most of the officers of the Club feel that this action is not to be construed as being an abandonment of the so-called open, free, and nonpartisan discussion policy. But let us not forget that the National Student League is admittedly sympathetic with, and proposes to defend a great majority of the Communists' social and economic principles. Although it is true that as Mr. Hartshorne has said, the Liberal Club is what its members wish to make...