Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yeats, in trying to give poorly read, faction-ridden Ireland such a literature, had to promote a writer's faction, to put the gift across. Because of his great natural ability and the sophistication he had gained from his literary associations in London and Paris, Yeats became the leader of this faction-whose foes, it was agreed, were the blackguards and fools who championed moral complacence, social respectability and badly written books. Among these foes Yeats circulated bravely and ceaselessly. With his long, flowing cloak, hair, tie and pince-nez ribbon, hawk face and eagle brow, he impersonated...
With the splitting of U. A. W. into two factions-A. F. of L. and C. I. 0.-Homer Martin fell back into obscurity as head of the weaker A. F. of L. faction. Two weeks ago his leadership was rejected in 48 General Motors Corp. plants, acknowledged in only five. Last week, having hopped, stepped, jumped, and fallen, Homer Martin stumbled out of Labor. In a letter to the union's executive board, he unexpectedly resigned, as of June 1 His reasons: he was very tired, he was going into private business...
Thereupon Premier Mussolini and Count Ciano punked the fuse of an extraordinary chain of diplomatic firecrackers. Italian envoys popped up all over Europe. Il Duce and his son-in-law played faction against faction, until no nation could be sure whether he was coming or going. At first the Allies were favored. Insulting press attacks on the Allies, particularly on Great Britain, were toned down; so was praise of the Axis. Friendly Giuseppe Bastianini was appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Trade talks with a British delegation were nurtured...
...Army officers and officers' widows. She reportedly helped the Nazis financially, talked to Nazi bigwigs in Germany. But she never got in to see Chancellor Hitler. Since Hitler made it plain that he wanted no Emperor in Germany, Wilhelm and Hermine have pinned their hopes to the monarchist faction of the German Army. No longer do they hope to get the throne for themselves, but want it for Wilhelm's favorite grandson, Louis Ferdinand, the onetime Detroit Ford worker who married Grand Duchess Kyra of Russia...
...made ready for a trip to Mexico and, possibly, a sabbatical year away from Union Seminary. Honest and greatly loved though he is, Methodist Ward had become an embarrassment to at least one organization, the American Civil Liberties Union, of which he has been president for 20 years. A faction in the Union, which believes it should go on record against the violation of civil liberties in Russia, has been gunning for Dr. Ward. Another group this aging clergyman heads, the American League for Peace and Democracy, began to crack up after it declined to condemn Russian aggression against Finland...