Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Visitors of the week at the White House were wily little President Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippine Senate and a party of Filipino politicians. Their faction had defeated in the Philippine Legislature the first step toward independence under the Hawes-Cutting Bill. President Roosevelt entertained them at lunch, pleasantly offered to give his earnest attention to any independence plan they might formulate, when they got it written down...
...companions waded all one day among shoals of the dreaded piranhas (little man-eating fish), though he admits it might not have been so safe if one of them had had an open cut on his body. The attitude of the whole anti-Pingle faction was one of defensive parody: "If Indians approached us, we referred to them as the Oncoming Savages. We never said, 'Was that a shot?' but always 'Was that the well-known bark of a Mauser?' All insects of harmless nature and ridiculous appearance we pointed out to each other
...submit to all member states a draft treaty under which "equal nationality rights" would be guaranteed to women, and to recommend that all countries grant them "civil and political equality." Secretary Hull, acting on cabled orders from Washington, abstained from voting for the resolution because there is a faction in the Administration, led by the President's wife, which favors granting to women at work and in the home more than equal rights with...
Representative Bolivar Kemp of the 6th Louisiana District died in June. In accordance with unwritten Congressional custom, Widow Lallie Kemp was endorsed by the Long faction to succeed him. Four other candidates also prepared to enter the primary to win a Democratic nomination which in Louisiana is the same thing as an election. Suddenly last fortnight, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen, a Longster, called a special election, to be held eight days after his proclamation. He boldly named Widow Kemp as "the unopposed Democratic nominee because there will not be time to hold a primary." At this latest piece...
...thing which this situation ensures is that the German coup d'etat will not be reproduced in its original form in Austria. No single party will be able suddenly to toss aside democratic forms and seize power while its adversaries sit dazed by the Unexpectedness of It All; every faction is keenly aware of the danger which the others present to it. The country exists in a condition of armed suspense...