Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Merriam of Long Beach became Acting Governor when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last June. The San Francisco general strike and a shrewd stratagem won him his nomination for the coming election. Prior to the strike, onetime Governor Clement Calhoun Young had been assured Republican support by no less a faction than Herbert Hoover & friends. When big industrialists began to beseech Acting Governor Merriam to send troops into San Francisco, he replied that it would ruin him politically. One by one the potent Young backers agreed to switch their strength in the primary to Merriam. Not until he had corralled most...
...whom nearly two-and-a-half million sent postcards to the conference voting against Sir Stafford's proposals. Deluged by this repudiation, Sir Stafford was content to take a comparatively minor place in the Party's national executive committee, thereby giving Labor a united front far different from the faction-riddled Conservative Party's, and making it clear that for the present, at any rate, he endorsed the milder Henderson-Morrison plan of action...
...Assembly voted to repudiate the term "Modernist" which the Cleveland Plain Dealer had applied to it when it censured the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions last fortnight. "Conservative" being nearer its mood, it continued to flout the small faction of Fundamentalists in its midst. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, as clerk of the Assembly, despatched an airmail letter to the Independent Board in Philadelphia demanding a certified list of its officers and members, who by Assembly vote are now subject to discipline by their presbyteries...
...cults live communally, subscribe to the same credo. They are vegetarians. They wear no garments of black, the color of death. They believe that non-sinners never die, that there is always a King David alive somewhere in the world. Males neither shave nor trim their locks. The Purnell faction operates farms, a hotel, a bakery, a restaurant. Somewhat less piously reactionary, the Dewhirst faction runs a summer resort, an amusement park and the House of David's most famed possession-three bearded baseball teams. Travelling about the country these teams, which include many an outmoded big league player...
...last week the delegates of 21 nations at the World Wheat Conference in London had talked themselves dry. Most of them wanted arbitrarily to boost the export price of wheat 10%. Leaders of this faction were three great wheat-sellers: Canada, Australia and the U. S. Drought in those lands had reduced the wheat crop, already boosted the price. Last August's Conference had given them such adequate export quotas for the current year (Canada: 200,000,000 bu.; Australia: 105,000,000; the U. S.: 47,000,000) that they were willing to give up part of them...