Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three undergraduates are fighting for nominations to the Cambridge City Council, while Soccer Coach John F. Carr has entered the lists for the Cambridge School Committee. Those who survive the non-partisan primaries will come up for election in November...
What he wanted was immediate, non-partisan action by Congress in special session to repeal the embargo on U. S. arms shipments to belligerents. The conferees agreed on non-partisan action for peace (but not, said Alf Landon afterward, to the point of forgoing partisan politics in 1940 and handing Franklin Roosevelt a third term). But they gave no committal whatsoever on the embargo. Franklin Roosevelt's biggest net gain was Jack Garner's potent support-at least for 30 days...
President Lowell; Jaines M. Landis, Dean of the Law School; William Y. Elliott, professor of Government; and Arthur N. Holcombe, professor of Government, have expressed their disapproval of the arms embargo by joining the newly-formed Non-Partisan Neutrality Committee for New England, it was announced Saturday...
...these days of tension ... we must all stand together . . . fulfill our obligations to the nation, regardless of political or partisan considerations," Franklin Roosevelt wrote last week, canceling a political engagement and making Republicans wonder how far non-political national unity is expected...
Most columnists were either violently partisan like Dorothy Thompson or violently non-partisan like Hugh Johnson and Boake Carter. In the New York World-Telegram Harry Elmer Barnes called down a plague on both Europe's houses: "The lip service paid to democracy is only a fake frosting to obscure the underlying imperialism. . . . The current conflict ... is in reality a clash of rival imperialisms...