Word: faction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have for ten months terrorized the district in and around Williamson County, Ill.-"Bloody Williamson," ill-famed for Herrin killings-are leaderless. Birger himself captained one gang; now he plays pinochle with himself in a jail cell at Benton, Ill., while eight armed deputies patrol the corridors. The other faction, led by the three Shelton brothers, also "mourns leaders' absence," for recently, Carl, Earl and Bernie Shelton entered Leavenworth Penitentiary, began 25-year sentences for robbing U.S. mails in Collinsville, Ill., on Jan. 27, 1925. Perhaps there may be a lull in Williamson County battle, murder and sudden death...
Last week news came of a secret meeting at Paris between five Chinese Ministers, to try and decide from what Chinese faction they would take orders. They were: Chao Hsin-chu (Minister to Rome and Representative before the League); Tcheng-loh (Minister to Paris) ; Wei Cheng-tchean (Berlin) ; Fang King-ky (Brussels) ; and Wang Kuang-ky (The Hague...
...scuppers with U. S. marines last week, but announced that she was merely sailing for "a secret destination in the Orient." British statesmen, not so subtle, baldly admitted that 12,000 British troops were being rushed to China last week-thereby enraging both the northern and southern factions of the Chinese Civil War. Retaliation. The northern War Lord, Chang Tso-lin, expressed his displeasure by knocking out the kingpin of the whole fiscal structure upon which foreign loans to China rest. The structure is the Chinese Maritime Customs Bureau, the duties collected by which are pledged to the repayment...
...Vice President Sacasa was absent from Nicaragua on Nov. 10, 1926. The President did not touch upon this point. Dr. Sacasa, of course, declares that he was absent because, had he been present he would have been shot down like a dog by his enemies: the Diaz-Charnorro faction. President Coolidge observed en passant, that at the end of November, after spending some time in Mexico City, Dr. Sacasa went back to Nicaragua, landing at Puerto Cabezas, near Bragman's bluff (with an armed force...
...President adduced no reason why Mexicans do not possess the same right to sell arms to the Sacasa faction that U. S. citizens exercise in selling arms to the Diaz faction. Instead President Coolidge defended his policy squarely and courageously on the ground that, "We have a very definite and special interest in the maintenance of order and good government in Nicaragua at the present time...