Word: cabalism
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...openly oppose his plans he would smother the German propaganda campaign against Poland, France's ally, and he would break Germany's close business and financial arrangements with Russia. Also he would hold down Hitler. The rest is open news. Von Schleicher returned to Berlin, set his cabal against republican Chancellor Briining in motion, won over President von Hindenburg and set up his Junker "Cabinet of Monocles" under smartly groomed Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen, his military subordinate...
...independence bloc, nearly beside himself with impatience at Secretary Hurley's failure to commit himself on what his three weeks on the islands had shown him, truculently declared that "if Mr. Hurley believes what we think he believes, a compromise is impossible." Equally amazing was the cabal's declaration that if Secretary Hurley asked for a round table conference-which he did not-the independence bloc would not attend. Chief cause of this Hurley-burly was that the swart little legislators felt slighted, and perhaps anxious at the Secretary of War's going around asking the people...
...true value of the Society . . . lies in its encouragement of understanding between man and man. Internally this holds good; externally it discourages understanding about as effectively as the most fuliginous medieval cabal. . . . It marches solemnly through the night . . . and disappears into forbidding shrines where its rites are apparently joined by representatives of the colored race...
Said the leader of the Melvin cabal: "Old man Melvin brought the linoleum factory here over 50 years ago. He did a great deal for the community. . . . They say Travis was a ship's captain who gave a bell to the Methodist Church. Well, I like Melvin and that's what my gang is voting...
...spite of the denial, Welt am Abend (Communist organ) persisted in circulating as valid news coming "from a highly placed authority" the report that Old Paul was secretly forming a militaristic cabal, which would permanently dissolve the Reichstag, erect a formal dictatorship...