Word: faction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the result can be understood as a vote of lack of confidence in the Coolidge faction which Senator Pepper represented is perhaps dubitable. Although the Secretary of the Treasury backed the Senator, Mr. Coolidge held off his official support until the last moment. The insurgent Republicans have never been strong in the Keystone State and whatever reaction exists can probably be interpreted as the traditional mid-term anti-administration threat...
With the major parties thus gradually converging, liberalism would be politically somnolent were it not for the stubborn resistance which the Western insurgents have offered to the Administration. By providing for a "Progressive Republican" on the commission the new tariff law has recognized this bloc as a distinct faction. In view of the Democratic schism which loomed so large in 1924, and is still quite possible, this rupture within the Republican ranks makes for an added . Should Eastern Democracy slough off the reactionary South it would then occupy a position very similar to Western progressivism...
Finally, a sensation was created when the notorious ultra-reactionary militarist, Captain Ehrhardt, was observed to be strolling about the lobbies of the Reichstag and conferring privately with the leaders of the Voelkische, the extreme-Right Ludendorff faction. Captain Ehrhardt not only led the famed Kapp Putsch, which attempted to overthrow the German Republic in March, 1920, but was so implicated in the assassination of the Ministers Erzberger and Rathenau that he was forced to flee from Germany until the passing of last year's amnesty law. Pressmen eagerly touted his appearance as a sign that his old adherents...
...Last December Otto Hermann Kahn, chairman of the board and largest stockholder, bought the city block bounded by 56th and 57th Sts. and by 8th and 9th Aves. He did this quietly, anonymously, and proceeded to bring about the Metropolitan's vote of removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood of deepest indigo and an inbred suspicion of change. To control this element, Mr. Kahn transfused "new blood" into the board-William Kissam Vanderbilt, Marshall Field, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and others. But there impended a split with the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate...
...Doumer's scheme. 2) The alleged success of M. Herriot in bringing M. Blum, the leader of the Unified Socialists (TIME, Nov. 23) back into the Cartel. Since the present Briand Government was formed on the basis of a majority in the Chamber which depended upon the Blum faction's having veered away from the Cartel (TIME, Dec. 7), the possibility of keeping the Government majority intact appeared doubtful. Thus the Cabinet refused to indorse M. Doumer's program, fearing that the Government might fall if he carried his measure before the Chamber last week...