Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal strongly favored the cause of his old war-college student and personal friend, Francisco Franco. During the Nazi Blitzkrieg on France, a Pétain Ministry was favored by the appeasement group in the French Cabinet. Recalled from his Ambassadorship in Madrid, the Marshal headed the Cabinet faction which opposed Winston Churchill's offer of a French-British union...
...Nazis in eight years turn bankrupt, impoverished, faction-torn, truncated, disarmed Germany into the greatest military power in history...
...Labor has responsibilities as well as rights and there can be little lasting benefit when all considerations are given to one side and all responsibility is placed upon the other side. When distrust and suspicion are fostered and when one labor faction is pitted against another, the end will be that labor will finally lose all it has gained...
...widespread was the Communist taint? Ford's Harry Bennett charged that C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers were Communist-controlled. Mr. Bennett was exaggerating. A Red faction exists in the U.A.W. rank & file, but the union's top officials are definitely antiCommunist. In aircraft, which U.A.W. is also trying to organize, Communists have crept a little higher. U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas has ordered the union's new chief aircraft organizer, Richard Frankensteen, to clean the Communists...
Some of the truth about the incredibly tangled situation leaked out from Washington last week in little whiffs of rumor, in planted "true stories" circulated by each interested faction. The whole truth would have to wait for historians. In general outline, the plan appeared to be like this: On or about April 1 the President is to appoint Corcoran as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in charge of air. Perhaps sooner, Robert Lovett* will be made Assistant Secretary of War in charge of air. Robert Lovett, 45, a World War I Navy ace, publicly an unknown, is an able, coolheaded...