Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inevitable that the success of Holabird & Root should encourage the modernist faction in the Architectural League. Added to this, perhaps a larger proportion of the exhibits than ever before displayed the influence of utility and simplicity. Even in domestic architecture there were more plain surfaces, less elaborately romantic Tudor, more convenience and less picturesqueness...
Dottin shows clearly and forcefully DeFoe's significance as a pamphleteer and publicity man, first in the employ of one political faction, then of the other. In the middle pages of this book., DeFoe appears as the first yellow journalist, the first crusading journalist--the two being not as the first ghost writer and moulder of public opinion. Even Bernais and Ivy Lee need not have scorned some of the coups pulled by this 18th century writer...
...General Election of last spring all Liberals stood together. Shoulder to shoulder fought the witty, opportunist youngsters who follow David Lloyd George, and the grave, steady-going oldsters who, like Lord Grey, are chiefly composed of moral fibres. It seemed as if the old feud between the factions had been extinguished, as though Lloyd George's titular leadership of the party had been finally accepted by the old Asquith faction misnamed the "Liberal Council" and headed by Lord Grey. Then, last week, with spectacular abruptness. Grey of Fallodon calmly declared: "Things were said during the last election...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: An ultra-liberal Democrat, he has shown an individual talent for legislation. His political and economic theories cause him to swing naturally into line with the Norris-La Follette Insurgent faction of the Senate G. O. P. He exhibits no capability as a minority party leader. His votes are generally independent, sometimes freakish (he was the only Democrat to vote against the special session adjournment). A good partisan, he flays the Old Guard and what he calls G. O. P. "imperialism" so vigorously that many a conservative mistakes him for a radical. In industry...