Word: faction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seating of his delegation in preference to that of M. J. Mulvihill, Republican National Committeeman from that State. The most spectacular contest was over the delegation from Georgia. "Colonel" Henry Lincoln Johnson, who is National Committeeman from Georgia, brought a contest to unseat the so-called J. L. Phillips faction. It did not seem that he would succeed. Being a lawyer-a brilliant and able lawyer, according to Negroes who know him-he presented his own case. He paced up and down before the Committee for an hour, carrying on a running fire of debate with the Committee, with...
...Amid a bedlam of shouting and noise that rivaled that of previous years, for the first time since the convention started, General Charles Gates Dawes of Illinois, was nominated tonight as the Republican candidate for vice-president. The third ballot saw a landslide of votes to the financier's faction after Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois had refused the nomination that was tendered to him on the second ballot...
...leader of the Underwood faction, J. S. Wood '25, has received a letter from Senator Underwood thanking him for espousing his cause. "If the Democratic Party," the letter runs, "at its National Convention will nominate a sound candidate upon a constructive platform, based upon the fundamental principles of Democracy. I believe we shall have an excellent chance of winning in the general election...
...capacity of New Lecture Hall, according to Assistant Comptroller E. S. Emery, is 940. As it is doubtful that more than 150 delegates will be definitely pledged to any candidate, the victory of any one faction will depend largely upon its ability to bring a majority of the mass of unorganized voters into line. A well-organized group will be able to accomplish this where a much larger body with no plan of campaign would fail...
After the regular speeches, the debate will be opened to the floor. A closure rule, however, has been made, which will end the debate promptly at 8.30. The opposing factions will face each other on opposite sides of the Faculty Room, while the middle seats will be occupied by the center faction. Representatives of the Liberal Club and of the Military Science Department will in all probability advance contrary opinions...