Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oliveira Salazar tolerates the presence of a royal pretender to the Portuguese throne: Dom Duarte Nuno, 50, a recent settler in Lisbon, and the twig upon a branch of Portugal's royal family tree. Last week Dom Duarte got some royal competition. Portugal's anti-Nuno monarchist faction presented a petition in Rome to well-preserved Princess Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg Braganga. 50, an illegitimate child of Portugal's assassinated (in 1908) King Carlos I, to start pretending. A pro-Maria spokesman gave short shrift to Dom Duarte: "That impostor must never become king...
...discounts the unpleasant smell of the 17 secret appointments made by the Cambridge School Committee last year, it might well be said that this is the best thing that has happened to Cambridge in a long while. For it provides both the pro-appointments faction and the anti-appointments faction with the best election issue they have had in years...
...appointments faction, which is found on both the city council and the school committee, is made up of names infamous in the minds of Harvard men. Belonging to it are such men as A1 Vellucci, whose schemes for running a highway through Harvard are well known; Mayor Sullivan, who used to give anti-Harvard speeches outside Harvard dormitories; and James Fitzgerald, who made several slurs on Harvard during school committee meetings last year. In the minds of these men, the outcry against the appointments last year was organized by the Cambridge Civic Association, a good-government seeking organization...
Said the Hong Kong Standard: "This statement, if it genuinely reflects the viewpoint of the Liu-Peng faction, offers an explanation for their drastic turn against Mao. If they believe that the pursuit of Mao's policies would bring about the collapse of Communist rule in China, the need for self-preservation left them no alternative but to rise up against Mao and either force him to renounce his policy or else wrest control of the party from...
Long active in state politics. Abernethy committed his major sin last May when he keynoted a meeting of the Democrats of Texas, a new liberal faction of the state Democratic Party. He bluntly charged that the followers of Shivers and Daniel had tried to suppress the liberals by refusing to grant their delegates official status at the 1956 state convention. "We insist," said he. "that there must be no more rigging and stealing control of Democratic Party conventions by cynical and ruthless political manipulation." In spite of his political activities, Abernethy has never been known to propagandize on campus...