Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present Mayoralty campaign. Boss Rooney switched allegiance from the Thompson faction to the Democratic candidate, Anton J. Cermak. Observers wondered if this had been Boss Rooney's fatal mistake...
...unanimous vote its lower House passed a bill cutting the Nevada divorce-residence requirement from 90 days to 42. In the Senate Committee on Public Morals one group argued to delay the Senate vote until the last minute, to prevent the bill being matched by any other state; another faction urged that it be rushed through, effective May 1, to forestall an exodus of Reno's divorce colony...
Results of the frequent three cornered elections in America reveal a pressing need for a similar system. The recent Republican mayoralty contest in Chicago is an excellent example of the ineffectiveness of the present methods. Victory was assured to one faction because a split opposition permitted a minority vote to elect. Under the alternative plan, the votes which were lost on the third candidate might have given victory to the second. That a minority man should be elected to office is almost a refutation of the fundamental principal of American Democracy...
...balloting got underway last week at the Atlantic Hook & Ladder firehouse there were three main schools of thought. Spokesman for the Travis faction said, somewhat erroneously: "Now the name of these diggings was Travisville in the beginning. That's his story anyway. Travis was an old ship captain and from what I hear he was some boy. Let's stick to the old name of Travisville, but let's cut off the ville. That sounds too much like a hick place. . . . Imagine going into some of them big Manhattan department stores to buy and giving your home...
...issue: Belgians are linguistically a mixture of French speakers and Flemish speakers, each faction striving to oust the language of the other from Belgium's schools. Last February the famed University of Ghent was made 100% Flemish-speaking by Parliament. Recently Minister of Science & Arts Maurice Vauthier decreed that no professor from the University of Ghent may teach in other Belgian colleges...