Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago Mississippi held its primary with some 7,000 local candidates on the ballot. High men for Governor were Hugh White, rich lumberman, Mayor of Columbia, and Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner, smiling lawyer-farmer of Seminary. Completely turned out then was the Bilbo faction of Mississippi Democracy. In last week's run-off primary, with 2,000 names on the full ballot, Candidate Conner defeated Candidate White handsomely. "People v. Money" was the campaign issue, with Conner harping on White's wealth. A typical Conner campaign speech in which the Jackson Daily News, supporting Candidate White...
...Buckingham whom King Harry had swept aside on his way to the throne. Peter suddenly found himself a man with a destiny. A group of ambitious, discontented nobles wanted to help him overthrow King Harry. Through his guardian, Brother Tobias, the Church also beckoned his aid. But the faction which turned out to be his unswerving support were the furtive, secret folk who had been driven to the greenwood by oppression...
...would be quickly cleared of the indictments against him at Knoxville and Asheville, growing out of the Caldwell & Co. crash. He expected shortly to get back his Memphis Appeal and his Knoxville Journal which have been in receivership. Then he would start battling again against the Crump faction of Tennessee Democracy, attempt to regain his lost political ascendancy in the State. Gradually in the public mind a distinction was being made between Col. Lea and Mr. Caldwell. The latter was the promoter who had undertaken to finance the expansion of the Lea papers as only one of his many empire...
...fortnight ago to IK; on hand when Commissioner Mulrooney an nounced that one Harry Schlitten had confessed lo driving the car in which one Harry Stein had strangled Benita Franklin Bischoff. Arrested two months ago (TIME, April 20), Stein's ap parent motive was robbery. With happy satis faction, said Mayor Walker: "Commissioner, have you any newspapers here for the first few days after the murder? ... I think in justice to the Commissioner and the department that these statements . . . that the police had done away with this woman, should be pointed out to have been proven false...
...fact, there seem to be two divergent policies that have accentuated the high prices. Part of the men hold that the house plan rents, no matter whether necessary or not, can be paid by the Harvard undergraduate and hence should be charged. The other faction holds that the accrued rent is needed to defray the cost, of running the houses and hence must be charged. The first point is not only economically wrong but is unfair. Certainly no more than absolutely necessary should be charged. The second point admits another fallacy on which the authorities are working. They have taken...