Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After his 1930 re-election Governor Roosevelt got out and humped himself for the national nomination. Typical were his activities during June 1931: 1) attendance at the Governors' Conference at French Lick, Ind. where he worked into a non-partisan speech a full-length campaign platform which stole the headlines; 2) a stop-over in Ohio, "Mother of Presidents," to see Governor White, James Middleton Cox and the local Democratic bosses; 3) a trip to Manchester, Mass, to call on Col. Edward Mandell House whose support he enlisted. In July he appeared at the Charlottesville (Va.) Institute of Public...
...Democrats voted for it: New York's Black and Griffin, Texas' Blanton and Patman (bonuseer who tried to impeach Mr. Mellon), North Carolina's Hancock, Ohio's Sweeney, Missouri's Romjue. Rarely before had a U. S. President received such a thumping big non-partisan vote of confidence from the House. Impeacher McFadden, denounced and condemned by all Republicans for his "contemptible gesture" against his President, was re-elected last month on the Republican, Democratic and Prohibition tickets from his district in northeastern Pennsylvania...
...great importance among the hopes for better local government are improved methods of election and election machinery." Mr. Seasongood advocated the Australian ballot, the short ballot, the non-partisan ballot, the ballot with names rotating (doing away with the dumb-bell vote which gives Adams an advantage over Smith and Williams), the holding of national and state elections at times differing from city elections, the method of proportional representation and the use of voting machines...
...Labor Party, Only other occurrence of Labor's convention which remotely approached excitement was a resolution presented by the tin, iron and steelworkers group that the Federation "abandon the traditional non-partisan policy and sponsor a genuine Labor Party." Bland Secretary Frank Morrison promptly pigeonholed it. Day later the convention politely cheered Charles Dukes of the British Trade Union Congress when he told its members: "We were forced to enter politics to protect the primary necessities for ourselves and for our dependents. We believe the day has come when Labor can no longer remain quiescent. Labor is entering into...
...scene stepped an unexpected figure. John H. Trumbull, the shrewd Yankee merchant who rose from a tiny electrical business in Hartford to be the "flying Governor of Connecticut" and John Coolidge's father-in-law, announced from his Plainville, Conn. home that he had formed a third, "non-partisan" stockholders' committee. He too called for proxies. His committee, said the Governor, was best qualified to judge the merits of the controversy. It included Lessing Julius Rosenwald, potent vice board chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co., William Benson Mayo, onetime chief of Ford aircraft construction. President Howard Coonley of Boston's Walworth...