Word: nonpartisanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kelland & Co. had some support from the lower echelons. Some 500 Southern California Republicans, meeting at Alhambra, Calif, last week, attacked Warren's "nonpartisanship," and called for the elimination of the state's cross-filing system "so we will be sure candidates who run for public office on the Republican ticket shall subscribe to the principles of real Republicanism." Some other Old Guardsmen kept their sense of humor. Said one: "These boys have wrecked the party in three different national elections. Now it's only fair to give us a chance to wreck...
...Questions? G.O.P. Congressmen who attempted airy political banter with suave Sidney Hillman, a veteran of 35 years of left-wing dialectics, found him one too many for them. Representative Clarence J. Brown, of Blanchester, Ohio (pop. 1,785), tried to poke fun at the P.A.C. claims to nonpartisanship. Said he: was it not true that Hillman's own New York local had supported Tom Dewey for district attorney...
...involved in American politics. That was why he and Secretary of State Hull had been working with Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee and a special committee from the House (see cut). So far, the President added, the consultations had been conducted on a very high plane of nonpartisanship...
Human Impossibility. More basic than this personal controversy was the issue which CBS had apparently stumbled on unawares: although it is highly important that purveyors of news should not take sides, every intellectually honest newsman knows that impartiality (as distinct from nonpartisanship) is a human impossibility. If it could be achieved, far from being a feather in a newsman's cap, it would merely make him a man without principle and without perspective...