Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some political observers already predicted a struggle for party control between the regular organization group and the C.I.O.-P.A.C. faction led by Sidney Hillman. Others, knowing politically wise Harry Truman, predicted that he and highly professional Bob Hannegan would be able to live in harmony with Hillman's machine...
...revolutionary mood spread to neighboring El Salvador, where two opposing factions both battled Government troops in an attempt to move their candidates into the President's office. President Andres Ignacio Menéndez resigned promptly "for health reasons" and was replaced by Colonel Osmin Aguirre y Salinas, who represented a third faction. Also from El Salvador came word that revolution had broken out in Honduras...
...Yankee Stadium and its 70,000 seats was the issue. Mrs. Lou Gehrig and Oilman Ray Ryan of the Ward group had put in their bid for the Stadium, would consider Randalls Island, threatened to play pro football in the Plaza Hotel ballroom if all else failed. The Meehan faction, boasting a family tie-in with the Ruppert heirs, professed to have the inside track, would bow out quietly if their bid for the Stadium failed. The Payne group was just hoping...
...brought President Roosevelt's assurance that he would take the matter up (but do little more) with his friend, Marshal Stalin. A more solid base for optimism was the way Roosevelt's reception had strengthened Mikolajczyk's hand for disposal of the Russian-hating, Russian-hated faction in the Polish Government in Exile headed by General Kazimierz Sosnkowski...
...character of the U.S. press has changed with the economic times. It was free in the days of small business, says Nebraska-born Lasch, when "the tramp printer and ambitious editor marched in the van of westward migration. . . . Every party, every faction had its own newspaper. A shoestring and the gift of gab were almost all a man needed to launch one." When business grew big, "personal journalism gave way to the corporation and the chain." The press became "an integral part of the economic structure. . . . Business had run politics and politics had run the press. Now the newspaper...