Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monro came to Cambridge from Andover in 1930 as a freshman and quickly joined the CRIMSON, where he soon became editorial chairman. In the middle of his senior year, he led the rebelling faction in an internal dispute over CRIMSON policy and organization. "The fight split the board right down the middle," he says, "and there seemed nothing for the dissenters to do but resign and start a new paper...
...make peace not only with the Communists, but with his own Premier, Sun Fo, and the entire Nationalist cabinet, now stubbornly entrenched in Canton. Sun Fo and his faction refuse to go along with Li's policy of peace-at-any-price, want to hold out for better terms from the Reds. Last week, Li made a dramatic gesture. He flew south to Canton to bring Sun Fo back into line. At Canton airport, Li and Sun Fo embraced each other. Said a member of Li's staff: "The mountain has come to Mohamed...
...Pace-Setters. The hunt was a case history in government by pressure. The hunters were Communists, Zionists, Wallaceites, liberals, deserving Democrats who coveted his job, and gossip columnists-a faction as mixed as their motives. Henry Wallace was one of the earliest pacesetters, sounding the accusatory note: ex-Wall Street Financier Forrestal, onetime president of Dillon Read, was a conniver in a capitalist plot to plunge the country into war. The Communist Daily Worker joined...
...pronouncement split Olivet right in two. The anti-Ashby faction found powerful leaders on the faculty. Among them were Economist Tucker P. Smith, head of the Olivet Teachers' Union and the 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President, and Pacifist Carleton Mabee, of the history department, winner in 1944 of the Pulitzer Prize for biography (The American Leonardo). Student intellectuals lined up behind Smith as a Student Action Committee. "The S.A.C.'s," jeered Ashbyite Clark Balch, a 30-year-old senior and football tackle, "are the kind of people who like art and music and stay up till...
Back to Normalcy. After that, the Smith faction decided to force Ashby's hand on the question of faculty tenure. At a meeting of the faculty cabinet-an administrative holdover from pre-Ashby days-it pushed through a vote recommending that all the Smith boys be given life contracts. The board of trustees gave a fast and brusque answer. They told Smith and Mabee that they were fired. The trustees also informed three other teachers-a member of the political science department, the director of the fine arts school, and a member of the music department-that their contracts...