Word: unpartisan
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...overriding need is to clearly understand the victories we have won in this cold war and how we won them," he wrote. Those victories, he went on, had been fashioned by almost-forgotten bipartisan cooperation. EGA itself was "launched as an unpartisan enterprise," established by a Republican Congress working with a Democratic executive. "This working unity typified our finest traditions and our greatest safety in the presence of external hazards to all Americans, regardless of party...
...Objectors. Clayton, who made a fortune in cotton, stood on that line with a crusader's fervor. But the line was being assaulted. Washington, last week, heard the first sharp words of a bitter fight which could tear the so-called "unpartisan" U.S. foreign policy apart. The attack came chiefly from Republican Congressmen...
...Halleck and the two Democratic minority leaders, Alben Barkley and Sam Rayburn.* After 50 minutes' non-controversial conversation about war surpluses, the Maritime Commission and possible future meetings, the guests walked out to disappoint a mob of newsmen. The talk, said Senator Vandenberg, was strictly confined to matters "unpartisan"-a word he is trying to substitute for "bipartisan" in the capital vocabulary...
...this and heaven too comes straight off the lunatic fringe-in the shape of a not unpartisan, 132-page booklet, written at high blood pressure by a Washington public-relations man. It is fiendishly illustrated by German-born George Grosz, fervently dedicated to those who are going to make the peace...
Aside from the fact that the formula is a politically astute conception, it has the advantage, if properly employed, of affording an unpartisan expert investigation, and of settling the public's mind on questions which would otherwise be only wind and partisanship...