Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...designed to scatter birdshot or shoot bear. That was the sensible objection raised to it by many Congressmen who could not be dismissed as isolationists. As drawn, the bill would give Harry Truman authority to send U.S. arms to any nation in the world-or even to any political faction in any nation...
...military force against any signatory, even by a faction within the nation itself, would bring immediate assistance from other signatories...
Senator Hickenlooper ahs conducted the current hearings in a sadly irresponsible faction. He has blown a few dubious charges up to an accusation of "gross mismanagement." He accused the AEC of hiring 2000 workers without proper loyalty checks--disregarding the fact that these men were given only emergency checks to facilitate their work on projects where the demands of security actually required speed. He ahs ignored Lilientnal's request that names of accused workers be kept from the public by so explicitly describing one atomic scientist that his colleagues could not fail to know him. This sort of thing...
...Louisiana oil. Helis was the biggest money backer of Earl Long. In 1939 he was involved in the "hot-oil" scandals with New Orleans' former mayor and Huey Long henchman, Robert Sidney Maestri. Helis is a one-man lobby for Greece (he is a supporter of the royalist faction), once owned drilling concessions for the entire nation. He keeps a racing stable in New Jersey. During the war, he turned his yacht over to the Government. General MacArthur's command used it all during the Pacific campaign...
Reclamation is not the answer as far as the moderate Socialists in De Gasperi's government are concerned. Led by highbrowed Giuseppe Saragat, this faction has pressured the Christian Democrats toward a new plan of land redistribution by progressive stages. Some 8,760 landholders would be affected. The state would buy up to 50% of the big holdings for resale, on easy terms, to small peasants. In the face of latifondiari resistance, the program will be hard to put over...