Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late to attend Thursday's meeting, Willner declared, "The basic political opinions of the majority of the HLU have now been made unmistakably clear. The Liberal Union has never questioned how extreme the views of individual members were, but it has refused to be dominated by an extreme faction. I am sure, now that this policy has been made clear and the necessary action taken, that all members will work together in a liberal action program...
That would paralyze Pontiac. since 75% of its wage earners are C.I.O. members. If the City Commission should surrender in the meantime, the Christmas faction would have a victory over Reutherite Law. In either case the people of Pontiac, holding their noses, were caught in the middle...
Vacationing in bourgeois Vermont, the literary culprits phrase-mongered: "We do not belong to any faction. . . . Both of us consider ourselves loyal members of the Communist Party...
...pressroom. The story he unreels with a series of flashbacks and asides is the story of Willie Stark, a poor farmer's awkward, hulking son from Mason City. Willie got his political start at home as county treasurer. He was honest, and that was why a Democratic faction in the state picked him up in the backwoods in 1926 and ran him in the primary for governor...
They ran him as a dummy to split the cocklebur vote for the opposing faction; but Willie didn't know this. Willie thought the Lord was calling him to save the state and so did his wife, Lucy, who had been a schoolteacher and didn't favor drinking. Willie was pure and believed in his backers. He believed in the people, who repaid his faith by dozing through his well-reasoned speeches. Then Willie found out that he had been a sap and a sucker...