Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five days the debate raged. Governors and generals flew in from the hinterland to join in. On New Year's Eve, some 30 leaders gathered for an arm-waving, tear-shedding showdown in the Gimo's red brick residence. The fight-to-the-finish faction tried hard to delete words implying resignation from Chiang's New Year's message. They won out on two points: conditions for peace which the Communists could scarcely be expected to accept, and a delay in the Gimo's abdication...
Victory for the Chinese Communist faction and the downfall of the Nationalist government is only a matter of time, according to Fairbank. The best aid the U.S. could send now would be in the nature of food and other necessities of life. These shipments, though, Fairbank stressed, should not go directly from our government to either the National or Communist government but should be distributed through such agencies as United Service to China, Red Cross, missions, and the UN International Relief Organization...
...interested in tracking down his brother's murderers, whoever they might be, in order to prevent other reporters from being intimidated by the threat of personal violence. He felt that since his brother's murder, most American newsmen in Greece have ceased to report news that any political faction might dislike, for fear that their sources, or they themselves, might be killed in retaliation...
...specific proposals I will make," he said, "will not set faction against faction, group against group. They will aim to join us together in a more perfect union." Ticking off the nation's ills-high prices, housing, racial discrimination-Dewey echoed Warren's sweet reasonableness and added a sly twist of his own. "Some of these unhappy conditions are the result of circumstances beyond the control of any government. Any fair-minded person would agree that others are merely the result of the Administration's lack of judgment, or of faith in our people. Only part...
...Brucker's remedy for the U.S. editorial page would probably be too drastic for many publishers: newspapers must break "the habit . . . of attaching themselves to one of the major political parties. This is a hangover from the days when there were many papers, each speaking for a particular faction. Today, when we have few papers, it is their obligation not to be a Dr. Goebbels for any group . . . Our journalistic Jeremiahs must breathe more hellfire and damnation than ever. Only they need to get all the facts, and not just some of them, first...