Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within two hours after his arrival, he persuaded both sides to appoint three members to an arbitration board which he headed with the right to vote. Each faction agreed to abide by the board's findings. The board retired to the Hotel Sheraton. Four hours later it emerged with its decision?$2.10. The strike was over...
When not playing Presidential politics, Mr. Farley is chairman of the New York State Boxing Commission. In him is something of the blatant tenacity of the prize ring. Yet as he sat alone at the Congress Hotel he was defeated by forces beyond his control. The Smith faction, captained by Jersey City's hardboiled Frank Hague and backed by Tammany Hall, was relentlessly bitter in its opposition. Mayor Hague had attacked Governor Roosevelt as the "weakest man" to nominate. The California and Texas forces of Speaker Garner, led by lean, leathery William Gibbs McAdoo, had lined up with the Brown...
...July 31 Germans will elect a new Reichstag, chances being that the Fascists will emerge as the largest party but without a majority. In that unsatisfactory event the political deadlock would be so complete that a coup d'état looms distinctly possible. Last week every faction-Monarchist, Fascist, Socialist, Communist-was watching cat-like for a chance to seize power by means fair or foul...
...Presidency. Vice President Curtis won, 634 ¼-to-401½. Only in 1912, when Theo dore Roosevelt split the Party and paved the way to a Democratic victory, had the G. O. P. renominated its previous ticket. It would not have occurred on the first ballot had not the Pennsylvania faction switched its 75 votes from General Ed ward Martin, State chairman, to Curtis at the last moment...
...Raskobite, Mr. Shouse has spent the last three years keeping his party alive and active in opposing the Hoover Administration. To him more than to any other individual has been credited the Democratic success of the 1930 elections which gave the party the House. No friend of the Roosevelt faction, Mr. Shouse urged States to pick uninstructed delegations to the Chicago convention, insisted that he was personally neutral among the swarms of candidates...