Word: faction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After 15 ballots, which included a 49 to 49 deadlock, Charles B. Perry, regular candidate for the House speakership, won over Alvin C. Reis, Progressive candidate. Mr. Reis was one of the signers of the Kohler-ouster petition. While his defeat was aided by the split of the Progressive faction between Mr. Reis and John W. Eber, 1927 speaker, the fact remained that the Governor's supporters secured control of the House, thereby the carnage sufferred by La Follettism...
...Reed belongs to the anti-Curtis faction in Kansas politics...
Political Situation. When members of the present Parliament were elected (TIME, March 5), the Seiyukai party of Prime Minister General Baron Giichi Tanaka could count upon only 221 seats. The Government was therefore menaced with upset by the Minseito opposition of 214, plus a faction holding the balance of power led by Deputy Yusuke Tsurumi. That the Cabinet was not immediately overthrown, was due to the adjournment of Parliament for the solemn enthronement of the Emperor Hirohito...
During this ceremonious interval, Baron Tanaka has unquestionably played politics with bribes and blandishments. The result appeared to be, last week, that Deputy Yusuke Tsurumi and his balance-of-power faction are now heart and soul for the Prime Minister. Furthermore moneyed Baron Tanaka has persuaded 29 of the Minseito opposition Deputies to bolt their party under Takejiro Tokonami and set themselves up as soi-disant independents. This reduces the effective strength of the Minseito opposition to 185, making certain supremacy for the Prime Minister...
...presidential result is almost nil. except in special cases. In allegedly wavering Florida, the last minute efforts of Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of the Great Commoner, Democratic candidate for Congress, will doubtless help the Brown Derby. Similarly effective, for Hooverism, has been and will be Ruth Hanna McCormick in faction-ridden Illinois. Lowden was her choice for the Republican nomination. But her father was Marcus Alonzo Hanna. Party regularity is her creed...