Word: non-partisan
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...Nominee Hoover's Boston speech, in which Nominee Smith's proposal of a non-partisan Tariff Commission was represented as a proposal to take Tariff control away from Congress, the Smith retort was: "What is the idea of all that? . . . I never suggested that the power of Congress be handed over to a commission, . . I ask that the Tariff Commission be rehabilitated and be strengthened, that the right type of people be appointed to it ... to lay before Congress and the people of the United States the underlying facts that sustain the reason for every change in a tariff schedule...
...this found its way into the newspapers, who asked: "Why was the invitation recalled?" The Federation existed first as a non-partisan organization. In the intensity of this campaign it has developed a pronounced Republican appearance but Mrs. Thomas is a Democrat...
...promised to reveal, this week, the rest, of the famous Forecast presidential prognostication, but I must break that promise, as I have often broken more important ones. But the truth is that a non-partisan body, composed of leaders of both parties, has asked me to hold off. Word came from rural communities in the West, where the name of Forecast is spoken in hushed and reverent tones, that the populace was a waiting my prediction before going to the polls...
...other Harvard Smith men who were clustered about their automobile attempted a pacific non-partisan interference but where discouraged by promiscuous shoves and blows. In response to a belated riot call the police at length arrived and forthwith broke up the altercation. The Harvard men were asked to continue their activities further down the street. They accordingly walked three blocks under the protection of the law and found a more favorable location where the speakers resumed their campaigning undisturbed. The brown derby unit will continue its work throughout the week. F. A. Ballard 1L., G. W. Harrington...
...CRIMSON opens itself to the gravest condemnation, however, when it becomes even less serious than the Lampoon in dealing with problems which will effect the destinies of our nation for the next four years. It is easy for a clown to be non-partisan. That the CRIMSON should give more prominence to the trivialities of a King-George-for-President Club than to a meeting at which a representative to the United States Congress, a Lieutenant-Governor of this state, and a president of the Massachusetts Republican Club were speakers, does not indicate too much discrimination on the part...