Word: faction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calmer moments, even Philip Snowden knows that the Empire's foreign policy is traditionally supposed to have a broad continuity whichever faction is top dog; secondly, that the Laborites did not repudiate the Balfour Note when they were in power; thirdly, that the principle laid down by Lord Balfour is now so firmly embroidered on the warp and woof of Reparations and War Debts that to dis entangle it would rend the fiscal fabric of Europe. Unwittingly, the angry pixie had given his Conservative enemies a chance to scare British voters by telling them that the Laborites...
...battle royal between undergraduates and alumni has set the Cornell campus agog. When a distinguished group of the latter faction recently met in take measures for the regeneration of football at Cornell, they were surprised to find the general sentiment of the student body opposed to their efforts. The Cornell Sun explained the attitude of the students by saying that "the undergraduates don't have any athletic teams any more. They belong to the alumni and the big-salaried coach...
...unusual feature of this arrangement is that Mussolini seems to be willing to let such considerable power escape from his dictatorial control and fall into the hands of a late antagonistic faction. It is especially striking in view of the fact that he has expended so much effort in bringing Italy under the absolute control of the civil government. He takes no consideration of the fact that in a few years the Italian nation will consist of those persons whose education he is now entrusting to an institution that by its very nature can not be anything but reactionary...
...stream of refugees and emigrants to the distant but more tranquil Manchuria will probably be greater than ever this year. There the international competition is still present to add to the complication, as is shown by rumors of Russian generals or Japanese money backing one or the other faction. Out of China should come something of great moment to world history before long, but to contemporary eyes it is still a witches' cauldron ever threatening to boll over...
...Victoria Childs is a onetime secretary of Mr. William Childs. They were but recently married (TIME, Feb. 6, 1928). In the background looms the corporate figure of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which is rumored to be the rod and staff of the anti-Childs faction...