Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interest in Virginia-Carolina's welfare. Objecting to the fact that the merger gave Armour a 61% interest in the new company, he rallied stock-holders against the consolidation, blocked it. Soon Mr. Wilson resigned, was succeeded by Vice President George Holderness. But the anti-Kemp, promerger faction remained unsatisfied...
...last week the factional split between Democratic friends & foes of St. Louis' Mayor Bernard F. ("Barney") Dickmann had resulted in nothing more than bad blood, hot words. Last week both sides got their dander up over a city-wide poll on a $7,500,000 bond issue to build a memorial to Thomas Jefferson beside the Mississippi. Following day City Market Master James O. Stubbs and State Representative Lawrence J. Fontana, both Dickmann men, marched with two friends into the office of City Recorder of Deeds John P. English, head of the anti-Dickmann faction...
...next week's primary. Compromise was impossible because none of the three leading candidates would give an inch for party unity. Sheriff Richard Weglein, for 25 years boss of "Brewerytown," thought he ought to be Mayor because he is "the only real Republican of the lot." The Penrose faction of the Republican machine threw its support to City Treasurer WillB Hadley for Mayor. Also definitely in the Republican race was a newcomer named Samuel Davis Wilson...
Partner Wilson might have tried to seize the Democratic nomination except that Democratic Boss Kelly got there ahead of him. So while Partner Hadley rounded up support of the Penrose faction, Partner Wilson rounded up support of the Vare faction and began to make things...
...party. Evidently last week's uprising was chiefly calculated as a demonstration against the May 14 Constitution plebiscite. Sakdalistas believed that if that vote were favorable, the result would pave the way to Boss Quezon's election as President of the Philippine Commonwealth this autumn, keep his faction in power during the next ten years of Commonwealth status...