Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist Party of the U. S. A. upholds the democratic achievements of the American people. It opposes with all its power any clique, group, circle, faction, or party, which conspires or acts to subvert, undermine, weaken or overthrow, any or all institutions of American democracy...
When the last days of the campaign became so savage that it seemed Pennsylvania's Democracy might be wrecked, James A. Farley made an election eve proposal that each faction sacrifice one candidate, compromise on an Earle-Kennedy combination. This proposal Governor Earle promptly repudiated. Next day Pennsylvania's other Democrats repudiated it too, nominated Candidate Jones 6-to-5 over Candidate Kennedy. Candidate Earle 2-to-1 over Candidate Wilson...
...drop Judge Jarecki from the ticket, run a rival Pole, a circuit court judge named John Prystalski, for his office. Judge Jarecki's reply to this slight was a prompt announcement that he would run anyway, independently if necessary. It was not necessary. Governor Homer's faction, which has long been looking for some way to shake its rival's Cook County dominance, immediately saw in Judge Jarecki the answer to its prayer...
...that the anti-Hicks faction has been "dissolved," they have come out in favor of his appointment, and in doing so revealed an apparent lack of foundation for the story carried by the American and Daily Record yesterday concerning the "storm of student protest" the appointment had aroused. At 12:30 o'clock there were "no" signatures; and later in the afternoon an American reporter was seen trying to collect signatures for a petition on Hicks, a facsimile of which had appeared earlier in the American...
Throughout the country, elections of local union officers were being completed. Though re-elected without opposition at the union's faction-torn convention last August, President Martin is by no means an unchallenged leader. The current local elections have little to do with local issues; they have become a judgment of the Martin administration. In each local auto workers were usually confronted with two slates: Progressive and Unity. (Both factions accuse each other of being false to their names.) The Progressives are led by Martin and his hand-picked assistant president, Richard Frankensteen. The Unity group is a combination...