Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instability of a state continually threatened with that fact infrequently mentioned in polite circles--the class struggle; and a great deal of the virulence of nationalism can be drawn if economic differences are more or less completely resolved. When property, which Madison believed was the chief source of faction, is eliminated as an issue, there will remain the possibility of a stable, peaceful society which can govern its foreign relations on a basis of welfare, not power; on an absolute good, not a relative one. The difficulties such an organization will face should not be underestimated; but in it there...
Ever since the election of Evangelical elders and deacons last July-an election which the Nazi "German Christian" faction won after violent scuffling and intimidation-it has seemed inevitable that the Synod must elect Dr. Müller to be Reichsbischof of all Germany. Last week after prayers in the Castle Church the delegates went to the Town Church to vote. In marched the theological brownshirts, surrounded the Synod and watched their every move. Promptly and unanimously the Synod elected Dr. Müller to be Reichsbischof and to bring the German Evangelical Churches under the de facto rule...
...elect a Provisional President. Soon after midnight it settled on Commissioner Grau San Martin. At noon next day, all in white, he stepped out on the second floor balcony of the Palace. With him was his only important non-Junta supporter, Miguel Mariano Gomez, head of the Marianista faction. Absent was the entire diplomatic corps. President Grau San Martin swore a simple oath "to comply with all parts of the revolutionary program already decided upon and to respect all interests already established." But this show was no great success. Only 3,000 of Havana's critical crowd gathered...
...already dead. Probably he was. Certainly he died "of jaundice with complications" (according to the Japanese War Office) before the imperial fruit arrived. In double-quick time Emperor Hirohito created the dead marshal posthumously a baron and named as his successor another member of the super-militaristic Satsuma faction which dominates the Japanese Army, grizzled old General Takashi Hishikari of the Supreme War Council...
...runaways steamed north, thinking to sell their ships to the Puppet State Manchukuo. but Japan who tweaks the puppet's strings has a real navy, refused to bid. Disgruntled, the mutineers turned south. They remembered that in 1917 the same three ships sold out to the Canton faction of the late, great Dr. Sun Yat-sen for $60,000. Perhaps Canton might be in a buying mood again...