Word: non-partisan
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...Harvard graduate not so long loosed from the fold, and as a former CRIMSON editor, I wish to congratulate you on your wise decision to remain non-partisan in the presidential campaign this year...
Then he said: "But the American people will never consent to delegating authority over the tariff to any commission whether non-partisan or by-partisan. . . . There is only one commission to which delegation of that authority can be made. That is the great commission of their own choosing, the Congress of the United States and the President. It is the only commission which can be held responsible to the electorate...
This was rather a neat way of suggesting that Nominee Smith's proposed non-partisan five-man commission would be unconstitutional...
...Iowa, comes much that is memorable in pictorial politics, considers that the cartoonist's status is that of a court jester. If "Ding" ever crusades, it is always in the lighter vein. He serves a nationwide syndicate which contains a wide variety of political sympathies. He tries to be non-partisan but is clearly classifiable as Dry and anti-Tammany...
...public office before and "was a very much surprised man" when, in August, the Farmer-Laborites asked him to run. He accepted, promising Farm Relief, a Prohibition referendum, States' rights, the Smith program for Boulder Dam, the G. O. P. policy on immigration, "adequate" Federal flood control, a non-partisan Cabinet...