Word: non-partisan
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...breakfast in his honor. Up to Charlie Taft sped his law partner, Representative John B. Hollister, to whisper that the breakfasters were "furious," that Alf Landon would have to say something to square himself with them. Said the Nominee in his ensuing speech: "I pay tribute to your non-partisan city form of government, its freedom from machine politics and its use of the merit system. But I want to say to you that I have more respect for the machine politician than I do for the lily-handed citizen who boasts that he takes no interest in politics...
Affiliation of the Teacher's Union with the Labor's Non-Partisan League which is pledged to the recletion of President Roosevelt was announced after a meeting held in the Faculty Cub yesterday afternoon...
...resolution was passed "Whereas Labor's Non-Partisan League in a step toward the formation of an instrument for the Independent political actions of labor, and whereas the immediate objective of labor's Non-PArtisdan League is the reelection of President Roosevelt., thereby preventing the election of a reactionary administration, therefore be it received that the Cambridge Union of University Teachers affiliate with labor's Non-Partisan League...
...opening the Fall campaign with respectable professorial speakers and non-partisan debates, the Student Union manages to put on a facade of official virtue. However, official virtue will be but small consolation to the disillusioned yearling if he finds that his money is to be used for such preciously futile pranks as strikes against non-existent wars. The Union can be constructive; it is up to the freshmen to help make...
...however, matched in importance a group of 27 who descended in a body on Hyde Park one afternoon. For three long months of an important political campaign Franklin Roosevelt had not appeared before the public save in his full magisterial dignity as President of the U. S. In that non-partisan role he lost little if any campaigning advantage. Although he could not directly attack his political opponent, he could draw audiences, obtain free radio time, effectively expound his own political doctrines not as though seeking power but with the noble air of using his power for the public good...