Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gottlieb's faction has endorsed the New Deal and President Roosevelt's candidacy and advocates giving all possible assistance to Great Britain and China short of going...
Touchy as a boil on the subject of foreign policy, which was heatedly discussed at last night's mass meeting, the Harvard Student Union will next week be split clean through, no matter which of its two factions wins out. Developing all last year, intellectual tension is now at the breaking point between President Alan Gottlieb's pro-aid-to-Britain, pro-Roosevelt group, and the Marx-Stange faction favoring no aid to Britain and branding Roosevelt as a war-monger. Inevitably the break will weaken the HSU, and tend to depress still further the strong but gradually waning student...
What form this abandonment would take was something to be threshed out in the inner councils of the Chungking Government. One faction insisted that China must turn to Russia. In that case China would have to squelch her own Right...
...many Mexican politicos the Presidential election on July 7 had decided nothing. Both Government Candidate Manuel Avila Camacho and Oppositionist Almazán claimed victory and each faction had announced that it would install a Congress, which as an electoral college would pass on the validity of its own election and on Sept. 1 proclaim its candidate President...
Yeats slaved for his faction until it began to foster realistic writing: then he proudly withdrew. But, as a Free State Senator and Ireland's Nobel Prizewinner, he skirmished on loyally for the literary cause, won for the Abbey a national subsidy, and founded, with George Bernard Shaw, the Irish Academy of Letters. He was 70 before he received his first friendly public tribute from his countrymen-a birthday dinner at Dublin's Hibernian Hotel. Members of all factions were present. All found it impossible not to cheer their heads...