Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...university "would sooner shut down than allow a union shop" said William Ford, chairman of the Yale News, by telephone last night. Unless Mooney is successful in mediating between Yale officials and the university this morning, the strike may develop into a marathon to see which faction can hold out longer...
...other anti-Plan E faction, headed by Mickey Sullivan, used a different angle. Instead of directly opposing the council plan, they pooled their forces to elect their own councilmen, in opposition to the eleven candidates which the Plan E committee had endorsed...
...long cheer now has seven "rah's," two Hahvuhds, and three "teams." The cheerleaders are still arguing over the short cheer, as one faction wants it to be: "Hahvuhd, rah, ray, team," while the other says this would be untraditional...
...Chief of the General Staff of the Japanese forces in China, promoted to the rank of general and sent to command the Japanese forces in Korea. Mummy-faced General Itagaki ("I have often been likened to a corpse on reprieve") is the idol of the younger, Fascist-minded Army faction, is credited with originating the North China buffer state plan, which he carried out in Manchukuo. An attempt to carve another buffer state out of the Maritime Province of Siberia might well begin with an offensive from Korea...
...week's end reports seeped out of the President's pre-speech conference with Congressional leaders. One conferee asked Mr. Roosevelt why there was no reference in the speech to Japan. The President calmly replied that there are two factions in Japan-the belligerent Army and the peace-loving businessmen. He said that harsh words might give the belligerent faction the excuse it needed to launch an anti-U.S. drive...