Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bishop James Cannon Jr. stumped the State at the head of a vigorous Prohibitionist faction, told Indianapolitans: ''Indiana is the first State in which we have had an even chance. If we can win here we can prevent Repeal." Day after the voting, resilient Prohibitor Francis Scott McBride was declaring: "The vote in Indiana is heartening to those fighting Repeal. We had decided in advance that anything less than a 2-to-1 victory for Repeal would be a moral victory for us there." He thereupon vanished in Alabama. "The Wets had the support of both the national...
...Laski has two replies. One is the clear fact that no serious, fundamental issue has since been forced to the attention of the country; the two parties have been able to agree to disagree, simply because they are agreed on what Madison termed "the only enduring source of faction--Property." The other answer is that until now the continued economic success of the capitalist system had offered the disinherited at least some hope of material betterment in the near future. But with the collapse of national and international capitalism, with the evidence that even the so-called Social-Service State...
...definite as the Chancellor would be on the question that all Britain knew had split the Cabinet wide open: to pay or not to pay the installment of $75,950,000 due the U. S. three days after the W. E. C. opens. Stanley Baldwin was leading one faction, for immediate payment. Neville Chamberlain was leading the faction for default, secure in the knowledge that President Roosevelt's suspension of the gold clause in U. S. bonds had shocked thousands of Britons...
...Minister of Colonies. Never catching the national spotlight, his influence in the party and in France grew & grew. He served in the 1926 Herriot Cabinet, fought ultra-Nationalist Raymond Poincare persistently, was elected president of the Radical-Socialist Party in 1927, became leader of a party faction separate from his old teacher last winter...
...expected to raise a point of personal privilege in demanding a vacation. One message dealt with tariffs and War Debts, another with railroads. The third was to cover the Administration's public works program, if & when that program is fixed. Last week the Cabinet was divided into one faction that wanted to spend upwards of $2,000,000,000 per year on roads, harbors, bridges, slum clearance, etc. etc. and another faction that wanted to spend less than $1,000,000,000 for the same purposes. ¶ On June 3, 1898 Richmond Pearson Hobson won the nation...