Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative-elect Main tacitly deprecated the issue after his victory. Said he: "The Townsend clubs endorsed my candidacy after it was under way, but I entered the race at the urging of disinterested friends as the candidate of no group or faction. In the critical session of Congress just ahead I shall give my best efforts to representing all the people of the district on the various issues of domestic and foreign policy that may arise...
...George S. Kemp. At a special stockholders' meeting they failed to muster a quorum of 365,875 shares of common and both classes of preferred stock. They did have a quorum of the 7% prior preferred, but Vice President Gustavus Ober adjourned the meeting. Still displeased, the Ivey faction held a rump session, debated what to do next. Dictator Kemp held his saddle by a margin of 62,709 shares...
...time the racket was taking $6,000 per month out of Iowa alone. There were said to have been 2,000 victims in Quincy, Ill. Missouri, according to one faction of this huge gullery, was the home of Sir Francis' "rightful heir." Delay in the inheritance's division was explained by the promoters in many ways. One story was that a British "ecclesiastical court"-sometimes a "secret court"-was holding things up, waiting for the King to put the "golden seal" on the right papers. Two decades ago, Woodrow Wilson was reported to have been driven insane...
...Herbert Samuel, as leader of the main Liberal group and David Lloyd George as chief of his Liberal faction, virtually merged their invectives against the National Government with those of Labor, all opposition parties conceding that the only possible attack on Conservative Baldwin's sounding of pro-League, pro-Armament and pro-British notes is to accuse the Prime Minister furiously of not having sounded them soon or loud enough. In foreign policy they are what British subjects want. Only the black misery of Britain's depressed areas and the savage discontent of her leaderless proletariat can boil...
...altercation about the 1936 Olympics started in 1933 when the American Olympic Association met to consider sending a team to Berlin. One faction strongly opposed U. S. participation on the theory that Jews were being unfairly barred from German teams, while another faction argued no less earnestly that how the Nazis made up their teams was no rightful concern of the U. S. This semipolitical issue smoldered along for two years, while the American Olympic Committee was appointed, extracted a pledge that Jews would be allowed to compete for places on the German team and the Committee's chairman...