Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exploitation of student interests, non-representative officers and inefficient management are sending the old political faction form of government to the wall. College students are setting up the framework of government systems which are adequate and capable of satisfying the many needs of the present day student. In the larger colleges and universities, the student senate and council systems are being inaugurated to replace the old free-for-all but open-to-none class officer system...
...California, where the majority of stockholders reside, the Giannini faction has been holding tumultuous meetings up and down the State, has thrown accusations at "the Walker gang,'' has demanded that the opposition speak out in answer. Mr. Giannini has let his men do most of the speechmaking. But his presence on the platform has brought the cheers. While the story has been sensational, newspapers have played it down, knowing that the Giannini attacks did no good to California's Bank of America, which Transamerica owns...
...Wang who, severely injured, "resigned" (TiME, Oct. 5). One of the aspirants was Dr. Alfred Sze, delegate to the League of Nations. Many observers in Shanghai last week predicted that Dr. Koo's tenure would survive only until Dr. Sze's return from Geneva. The Canton faction stubbornly regarded Dr. Koo as only minister protem, hopeful of a chance to get its own Eugene Chen or Dr. C. C. Wu into the office permanently...
Although New York's lame Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt is today the leading Democratic candidate, he is far from being the unanimous choice of his party. A faction, supposedly led by Messrs. Smith, Raskob & Baruch, with support in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Illinois, objects to Mr. Roosevelt's nomination on three grounds: 1) he is too Dry a Wet; 2) he is too radical on water power; 3) he is too unsteady economically. Long has the anti-Roosevelt group been casting around for a candidate of its own. Last week it looked as if Governor Ritchie, thoroughly...
...hunting deer, ducks, or turkey, and tippling old corn whiskey with his friends. Though he grunted when he heard the news, Wilbert Robinson could not have been much startled. His mortal enemy, Stephen W. McKeever, chairman of the board of directors, has been urging his discharge for years. Another faction in the Club's ownership, composed of heirs to the estate of the late Charles H. Ebbets, upheld Robinson till this year when the Robins, favored to win the pennant, finished fourth...