Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin and his vice presidents, Wyndham Mortimer and Ed Hall, brewing ever since Martin blamed them for this summer's sporadic "unauthorized" General Motors sitdowns, had reached such a point that President Martin was determined to oust both. Although Homer Martin was unopposed for reelection, the Mortimer-Hall faction had been holding caucuses over the week-end to line up a "unity group" to oppose his "dictatorial" objectives...
...Flynn, an oldtime henchman of Jim Farley and onetime Secretary of State in Governor Franklin Roosevelt's State cabinet. He and Boss Kelly of Brooklyn, Boss Sheridan of Queens and Boss Fetherston of Richmond agreed on a ticket. When Tammany met it was split into at least three factions and Leader Dooling, ill abed and acting by proxy, was in danger of being unable to name his own candidate for mayor even in his own borough. By compromising with one faction he was able to beat the third which was in favor of bending the knee...
...years ago the proposal by a more radical faction to establish in one comprehensive agreement a 40-hour week for all workers was accepted ''in principle" by the Conference. This year this group was more precise in its demands. The mark it shot at was a 40-hour week for textile, chemical, printing industries throughout the world. Stanchest supporters of this scheme were the U. S. delegates, including Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady who had to rush back to Washington to deal with U. S. strikes when the Conference was not quite half over; French Labor...
...organization open to workers in advertising, circulation, business and other unorganized departments, and to apply for affiliation in the C. I. O. Rolypoly Reporter Robert Buck of the Washington News has constituted himself the leader of the Guild's loyal opposition ever since the union was founded. His faction, conservative and contrary individuals from the Southwest and Midwest who resent the "New York domination," approved joining C. I. O. but opposed broadening the union's membership base. On the grounds that coupling the two issues was like "hitching up a dead horse and a live one," "Bob" Buck...
...intellect condemned is hardly a fit person either to train or to 'influence' young men. No amount of good talk now or hereafter about the 'duty of the citizen towards the general government' will ever do away with the effect of his example.... No crime against society to which faction or sophistry or passion can tempt will ever equal that to the commission of which he has devoted the last four years of his life. Unless his first appearance in the college is marked by a frank and hearty act of repentance, the influence of his character, on which...