Word: non-partisan
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...President Hoover presented a report of his non-partisan Commission recommending Congressional action...
...writing "The Legacy of Sacco and Vauzetti" the authors have not only brought the objective and non-partisan substance of this vitally important chapter of recent history between the covers of one volume; they have also pioneered in the presentation of the effect specific legal action has on culture and therefore on society. The sharp contrast between the sober opinions of lawyers and judges, and the emotional cries of poets, novelists, and playwrights gives the reader a powerful three-dimensional picture of the event. This book is a major contribution to history, sociology...
...this government's intentions." This "counterpart fund" comprises monies France has been bound to set aside since the start of the Economic Cooperation Administration as an anti-inflation reserve specifically paralleling each American allocation. Ordinarily the reserve would remain untouchable. Schlesinger claims that releasing the funds is officially a non-partisan action aimed at economic health, but that it actually operates in a fundamental way against De Gaulle...
Most of Tennessee trooped soberly to the polls. But in Polk County, a Democratic pocket in the Republican southeast area, Southern tempers boiled over. Three men were killed and five wounded. The National Guard had to be rushed in. When the votes were tabulated, a non-partisan Good Government League had swept the ruthless organization of ex-Sheriff Burch Biggs, longtime Crump henchman, out of office...
Accompanied by his wife and pretty 17-year-old daughter Dorothy, the governor moved unostentatiously around the town. Then he took off for the Governors' Conference, where he firmly refused to discuss his chances with reporters. A non-partisan conference, said Candidate Warren, seemed to him scarcely the place to talk partisan politics...