Word: non-partisan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Malcolm Paul Cantrell. 65, Tennessee banker and heavy-handed politician whose powerful Democratic machine allied itself with Memphis' Boss Crump, ruled the roost in southeastern Tennessee's McMinn and Polk counties for a decade until returning World War II veterans formed the G.I. Non-Partisan League to fight him, used Tommy guns and dynamite on election day, Aug.1,1946, to rescue ballot boxes from the county jail where Cantrell's henchmen had hidden them; of cancer; in Athens, Tenn...
...Granger Morgan '63, editor-in-chief, stated that the purpose of the new magazine was to "combine many topics and views which until now could be found only in separate publications." The non-partisan magazine will not have an editorial policy, presenting instead factual information or several differing interpretations of current issues...
...executive committee of the Young Democratic Club yesterday voted unanimously to condemn the forthcoming World Youth Festival. The YDCHR resolution called the Festival, scheduled for July 27-Aug. 5 in Helsinki, Finland, "an obvious attempt by the world Communist movement to misrepresent world student opinion a meeting, ostensibly non-partisan, but in reality dominated and controlled by the Communists...
Established last January, the Atlantic Institute hopes to serve the NATO community as a channel of ideas and information between men on both sides of the ocean. It has prestigious, non-partisan backing. President Kennedy endorses the project and persuaded Lodge to take the post; U.S. representatives on the institute's board of governors include U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and former Secretary of State Christian Herter. Among distinguished European members are its chairman, Paul van Zeeland, a former Belgian Prime Minister; Antoine Pinay, a former French Prime Minister; and Paul-Henri Spaak, former NATO Secretary-General. On an initial...
Drawn up in battle against the anti-PR forces is the Cambridge Civic Association, the city's partisan answer to a non-partisan political situation. With some historical justification, the CCA can emphasize that the institution of PR contributed to the abolition of the old, corrupt machine and offered the voter a more democratic means of electing those candidates whose ideas most closely conformed to his own. Because there are no primaries, the ballot is large and the consequent selection diverse...