Word: nonpartisanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bills in Congress, the President summed up, the bill that best measured up to these needs was the Landrum-Griffin bill*-"a good start toward a real labor reform bill." He gave his point extra punch when he stressed his final-term nonpartisanship. "I don't come before you in any partisan sense-I am not a candidate for office." And he carefully stopped just short of the Write-Your-Congressman-Now appeal that would have weakened that impartiality. "It is my earnest hope," he said, "that Congress will be fully responsive to an overwhelming national demand. Thank...
Crossroads Campaign. At World War II's end, Dulles moved to the peacemaking level. Cordell Hull, President Roosevelt's Secretary of State, consulted him on "nonpartisanship." Roosevelt sent him as an adviser to the founding conference of the U.N. at San Francisco, where he and Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg worked successfully to get the word "justice" ranked with "peace" in the U.N. Charter. In the next five years President Truman sent him to nine more conferences, from London to Moscow to Japan; Dulles threw his influence behind the Marshall Plan and NATO, drafted and negotiated...
...Democratic attempt at freezing high farm supports at their present level. Those vetoes told the Congress, which had long since come to the point of discounting presidential influence, that Ike means business. For the first time G.O.P. congressional leaders are able to count on partisan coordination-instead of benign nonpartisanship-from the White House. Says Republican Whip Les Arends of Illinois: "Those veto actions firmed things up as far as we Republicans are concerned...
Bracing his lanky Texas frame against his polished first-row desk, Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson early one evening last week delivered his latest plea for nonpartisanship in the U.S. Senate. He had a good partisan reason. Far from indulging in nonpartisanship as Lyndon likes it, Republican Senators were heightening their resistance to pell-mell Democratic antirecession spending...
First of all, it should be noted that the co-signers of this letter represent various political views, and write in a spirit of strict nonpartisanship. Events of the past two weeks leave neither room nor time for narrow partisan polemic. Liberation for Hungary is an issue to which all Americans of good will may subscribe, whether Republicans or Democrats, liberals, conservatives or whatnot...