Word: faction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from half the world around, a brood of nearly 400, from 41 countries, for the 23rd meeting of the Interparliamentary Union. They came in high ships up the harbor and debarked along the drab waterfront, some of them met by friends, many of them by Communists, AntiFascists, any expatriated faction which disrelished what they did at home. But Mayor Hylan's policemen preserved them from harm, and Mayor Hylan himself spoke to them...
...although President Saavedra thought he could rely on Villanueva, who had been his Minister of Education and Agriculture, he was mistaken. Instead of picking a Cabinet from the Saavedra faction, Villanueva decided to choose a coalition cabinet, three Liberals, three Republicans (Saavedrists...
President Saavedra is to turn over the Government to President of the Senate, Felipe Guzman (a member of his faction), who will call a special election in December. The President then elected is to take office Jan. 10. Meanwhile Senor Saavedra continues to rule Bolivia in fact, if not in name...
...expected, the Legislature declares the May election void, Senator Guzman, President of the Senate, a member of the Saavedra faction, will be President of the country until a new election can be held...
Since the War, Archbishop Platon has been in actual possession of the American branch of the Russian Church, but he has been hostile to the new regime in Russia, and did not follow the Patriarch Tikhon when that lately deceased ruler (TIME, Apr. 20) compromised with the new Church faction in Russia. Patriarch Tikhon had summoned him to Moscow to be unfrocked. Thus Platon may be generally identified with the aristocratically inclined "unreconstructed Russian...