Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year readers with a taste for unusual prose and a willingness to search for cryptic significance in faction found a book that suited them perfectly in a first novel called The Asiatics. It was the work of a 78-year-old Yale professor, and it described the wanderings of an anonymous narrator from Persia to China, with careful and realistic descriptions of the extraordinary and unreal adventures he encountered on the way. These adventures ranged from a prison escape to casual encounters with the passionate overnight beauties of the Orient. Much of the strangeness of the book...
...campaigning for a primary election. In 1890 Benjamin Ryan ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, out for Governor, charged that only a man of wealth could reach the people through the Press,* stumped each & every county in the State in person, won a great victory. Two years later the anti-Tillman faction sent its candidate out to dog the Governor around the State. Thus the custom developed of having all the candidates in a State-wide primary travel together, speak in the same place at the same time. This system is hard on office-seekers but easy on the voters who have...
...Force experts were actually studying whether intervention by an expeditionary force to Spain may become "requisite." For centuries it has been London's basic policy that Britain must oppose whichever power on the Continent is strongest, lest it overwhelm her in the end. Today an important Cabinet faction close to Squire Baldwin holds that "the strongest European power" is now not any one country but the international Socialist-Communist forces of the "Popular Front" which have taken both France and Spain by ballot and are trying in a dozen countries for more sweeping victories. Britons knew what to think...
...threatened with social ostracism if not bodily harm by Republican members of his race. No respectable Negro congregation would dream of allowing a Democratic political meeting to be held in its church. Moreover most Negro politicians were subservient blackamoors who sold their flocks to this or that white Republican faction paying the highest price...
...When they say they are against the present bogus democracy of the present system and are for a workers' democracy, it is again a cowardly compromise with Bolshevism, for they would rather have used the phrase 'dictatorship of the pro letariat' if they had dared." Weakest faction was the Left's Centre, led by Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan of Milwaukee, whose chief desire was for peace-in-the-party. No aid to peace was the presence at Cleveland of Earl Browder, head of the U. S. Communist party, who appeared with a polite proposal that...