Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calm as a badger, up rose Idaho's wrinkled Borah, seldom the man to stop a good fight. He wanted to make way for an amendment to the Glass bill which would make it less obnoxious to the Long faction. He asked for unanimous consent to limit further debate on the bill in a proposal tantamount to cloture. "If we cannot secure agreement," he added grimly, "I myself am going to make a speech." He secured agreement...
...Roosevelt only so long as President Roosevelt is for him. His tactics last week drove a big wedge deep into his party and left President Roosevelt the tough job of choosing, after March 4, between the conservative Robinson-Glass oligarchy in the Senate or the rampant Long-Wheeler-Thomas faction...
Fortnight ago Christo Trojanoff and Ivan Petroff, also Macedonians, strolled past the Royal Palace in hunting clothes, equipped with rifles, hunting dogs, pistols and bombs. They were hunting editors, in particular Editor Simeon Eftimoff, leader of the Mikhailoffist faction of Macedonians which has been bitterly opposed by followers of the late General Protogeroff for reasons of which even other Bulgarians are none too certain. Across the street stepped Editor Eftimoff and his two bodyguards...
...course as the village news bureau. In New Winton's collection of characters the town sawbones, Dr. Bull, stands out like a large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson's son Dr. Bull's appetites are scandalously hearty. An increasing faction in New Winton, led by First Lady Mrs. Banning and puritanical Matthew Herring, find them an abomination, mutter also at the slapdash way Doc Bull treats his patients, public opinion, his Board of Health job. The doctor, an active, level-headed but choleric 60-year-old, has no very exalted view...
...hired Publicists Edward L. Bernays and Bruno & Blythe to combat the Cord propagandists, P. P. Willis & Co. of Chicago, Doremus & Co. of Manhattan. But their replies were less heated. President La Motte Turck Cohu repeated his familiar objections to Mr. Cord. Avco was cannily waiting, hoping that the Cord faction would talk itself into trouble...