Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Additional factors in the German situation are that among Adolf Hitler's advisers both pro-colonists and anti-colonists are prominent. The faction of Dr. Schacht thinks it paramount for former German colonies to be returned, licks its chops at the colonies of Portugal, figuring that England could make Portugal give some of these back to Germany. Today Portugal is on a war footing and last week took delivery of ten new bombers. Another German faction, that of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, "The Great Ideologist of the Nazi Party," holds that colonies have always cost the countries that owned them...
...State and National Democratic ticket, but the facts remain that Boss Kelly cut Governor Horner at the Democratic National Convention in June, that Mayor Kelly sat on a campaign platform with Governor Horner just once, that the Kelly-Nash Chicago machine temporarily buried the hatchet with the Horner downstate faction for the single purpose of holding Illinois for the Democracy...
Pressure brought to bear by an alliance of organized teacher's units and various Labor Union groups throughout the state was responsible for the defeat of the oath bill faction, while today a "united front" of faculty members and organized labor looms to back or oppose any legislation affecting their interests...
...reasonably conclude that the electorate this year loved him not less, but Franklin Roosevelt more. In addition, his Party's right wing split off, merged last summer with New York State's American Labor Party. Neither Communists nor Socialists were displeased at losing strength to this new faction, under whose emblem last week some 275,000 New Yorkers voted for Roosevelt and Lehman. Red Browder had proclaimed from the start that his Party's ambition was to lose its identity in a national Farmer-Labor Party in 1940. Last week in Chicago the Socialist Party...
...great deal of vague talk about a hypothetical New York State political situation, in which the forces of Cynthia Hope's (Helen Gahagan's) grandfather, a die-hard Republican out to smash a pack of radical cubs at the polls, are lined up against the faction of Frederick Holden (Ben Smith), who thinks grandfather and his allies are sociological contemporaries of the brontosaurus. A lazy neutral, Actor Webb twits grandfather's associates by inquiring if they think it quite sanitary, not to change their convictions more than twice a year. For the lower orders...