Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With every faction from die-hard Republicans to active Leftist sympathizers participating," the leaders of the drive said last night that they hope to collect the remainder in time to bring the ambulance itself to Harvard Square Monday...
...people who say 'art' and mean 'propaganda,' to whom music by Mendelssohn is not music, and poetry by Heine is not poetry, and a novel by Thomas Mann is unworthy, not because of extraneous fact wholly disassociated from all possible measures of beauty and satis faction...
...advice was not heeded. This week Sister Aimee, like Father Divine (see above), was to appear again in court. This time she is defendant in a $1,080,000 slander suit brought by Sister Rheba. Since the line-up of witnesses will be about the same, the anti-Aimee faction took hope from Daughter Roberta's victory last week. But Sister Aimee exhibited little chagrin. With a substantial number of her Temple addicts still loyal, she put on a garment of white chiffon which could be swished out behind her like a pair of wings, and preached a stirring...
...complying with the mayor's orders. The same mayor led a crusade against honest utility companies so that he might tell the ignorant masses that he had reduced their gas bills. Hardly any legislation advocated by communists has lacked his support. Finally, to secure the votes of a certain faction the mayor has been willing to hurl insults at the popular leader of a foreign power at peace with the United States...
...James A. Noe, wealthy north Louisiana oilman, had influenced the decision. He is planning to run for Governor at the next election against Earl Long, Huey's brother and the present lieutenant governor, and naturally would not like to be counted out in the primaries by the other faction of the machine. More startling was another report. The present Governor, Richard Webster Leche, has everything lined up for appointment to the Federal bench when a new judgeship is created "to clear crowded dockets." In some quarters Governor Leche was thought to be the man who quietly arranged the Court...