Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time the litigation was scheduled to appear in Manhattan, President Fish and the Omaha bondholders had come to terms. Meanwhile a third investors' faction headed by Allison L. Bayles, Manhattan investment banker, and counseled by Attorney Bruce Tuttle, had appeared. Its announced objective: To do away with W. N. U.'s present management, bring in as head man John Holliday Perry, president of American Press Association, country weekly advertising representatives. Counting noses for this fight, President Fish said he had 1,000 of the 1,200 bondholders on his side. Unable to get even a list of bondholders...
Last January banjo-eyed Funnyman Eddie Cantor (ne Izzy Iskovitch) paused in his Pebeco Toothpaste broadcast. For the best essay on How Can America Stay Out of War? he would give a $5,000 col lege scholarship. Rarely had a radio bene faction been launched under happier au spices. The title was picked by onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker...
...would run against Governor Hoffman for that job next May 19 on the sole issue of the Hoffman Case. "For five years," declared he, "I have taken no part in New Jersey political affairs other than to support the candidates of the Republican Party. I belong to no faction within the Party. But from my earliest boyhood two pictures stand out in my memory. One is of Jersey justice as an ideal of fair but unswerving enforcement of law through the orderly processes of the courts. The other is that the office of Governor is one of dignity and honor...
Last week's other squabble was between the Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co. management of Standard Investing Corp. and Phoenix Securities Corp., dominated by Wallace Groves, a secretive onetime small-loan banker from Baltimore. Controlling some 25% of Standard Investing's stock, the Groves faction had a good talking point in Standard's investment record, which could hardly be called impressive. On the other hand, Wallace Groves catapulted Phoenix Securities' assets from $2,000,000 to $9,000,000 in the past few years...
...deserves universal support from the College. When the legislative committee convenes again tomorrow, the mounting tide of opposition to the Oath will gain even more momentum if the Harvard student body pulls strongly for repeal. The Council, representing the college as a whole, and not any particular group or faction, commands solid undergraduate backing and is best fitted to take the students' case to the State House...