Word: faction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early returns showed the Batista faction leading, and the dusky Colonel exulted with his broadest grin: "I have never been so happy in my public life as now! It is a triumph of the people that exalts both Cuba and the Cubans. The armed forces have reason to be content...
...women voted for Hucy Long, and were the strongest faction behind James J. Walker, and thought Mr. Harding was a fine president, and backed Big Bill Thompson...
...highly aristocratic Potocki family, the ambassador has constantly worked for his country's freedom and later for its government. Originally aide de camp for the late Marshal Pilsudski, he served as minister in Ankara before coming to Washington. Even now, with the Moscicki faction out of power, he has held the confidence of the new government at Paris headed by General Sikorski...
...Miss Stevens, who was once sprung from the District of Columbia jail by Dudley Field Malone* after suffrage-picketing of the White House, holds that women are created free and equal with men, scorns all protective legislation for women. To the opposite female faction-who favor not equal rights but special rights for women-it was unthinkable that Miss Stevens should occupy so exalted a post. Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Molly" Dewson, and many another New Dealer belong to the opposition. Yet for ten years Miss Stevens kept her seat in spite of all the bonfires they could build under...
...Republican Conventions, where he sat in on many a smoke-filled hotel-room confab, with such politicians as Pennsylvania's Boies Penrose and the late President Warren G. Harding. Politician Butler's chief usefulness was as a kind of glorified errand boy who carried messages between one faction and another, wrote the first draft of political platforms (usually discarded), delivered statements to the press. It was Theodore Roosevelt who gave him his nickname of "Nicholas Miraculous...