Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former Dictator Juan Peron's spy network, are being urged by clandestine leaflets to cast blank ballots in all elections until their hero returns. A hodgepodge of smaller parties, whose leaders fear a licking at the polls, has also come out for blank ballots. Meanwhile, the powerful Radicals faction, headed by Lawyer Arturo Frondizi, is hoping to gain control of the assembly, vote its immediate dissolution and call for general elections. The People's Radical Party, which split off from the Frondizi group last winter, is the biggest party backing Aramburu on constitutional reform...
...over the years, Du Pont has steadily loosened its ties to the automaker. In recent years Du Pont's role has been largely confined to helping set overall policy, chiefly financial. Only six of G.M.'s 33 directors are usually identifiable as being in the Du Pont faction-Donaldson Brown, Du Pont treasurer until he switched to G.M. in 1921, Lammot du Pont Copeland, Emile F. du Pont, Henry B. du Pont, Chairman Albert Bradley, Executive Vice President Frederic G. Donner. As in many another company, there have often been arguments between the financial men in Manhattan...
...anti-expansion faction answers with the claim that Harvard will have to sacrifice quality if it is to increase quantity. The University admittedly has a duty to the nation, they say, but that duty is to preserve the high standards of scholarship that it now maintains. Any compromise with the quality of a Harvard education is a disastrous price to pay for an increase in admissions which can cover only a fraction of a per cent of the national total...
President Pusey would be the last to deny the legitimacy of this claim, but he challenges the statement that Harvard must lower its quality in order to expand a moderate amount. This is inded the crucial point of contention between the opposing faction: how would a 20 per cent increase in enrollment affect Harvard and the education it offers...
...Caracalla. For all its outward bonhomie, the Horlick-Magill correspondence chronicles a perpetual crisis -settling foundations, unsettled bar bills, membership raids from the wily rival club, Hard Hollow, and fights between locker room cliques (the change-shoes-and-leave set v. the shower-and-have-a-few-drinks faction). With no trouble at all the sociology-minded will be able to find in Happy Knoll a microcosm of American society. The women are aggrievedly aggressive; the young are unruly and pampered; the dining-room help is incompetent; advertising men (speechwise, they are horrifying) are closing in; the club deficit mounts...