Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian Democratic victory in Sicily only emphasized the divisions of the party in Rome. Rejoicing most was the faction headed by Party Secretary Amintore Fanfani, who had run the campaign, poured money and workers into Sicily to offset the Communists' $10 million election drive, and conclusively demonstrated that he could influence voters and win elections...
...crowded sanctuary of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church on staid, tree-lined Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. last week, a pro-segregation clergyman rose and heralded the defeat of his faction in singular language. Said the Rev. Alton J. Shirey: "You flattened us like a steam roller yesterday. Let's not cut the puppy's tail off an inch at a time...
...decide who should succeed Luigi Einaudi, a Liberal, as President. Einaudi is widely respected, but he is 81, and many disliked setting a precedent of a second seven-year term. Scelba declared the candidate should not be a Christian Democrat. The Liberals. Social Democrats and Scelba's own faction in the Christian Democrats were willing to support Einaudi. Fanfani was not. At an eleventh-hour meeting before the Deputies and Senators gathered in Rome's big Montecitorio Palace to vote, Fanfani imposed his compromise candidate: Cesare Merzagora, 56, president of the Senate. As the Christian Democrats filed into...
...There were 130 votes for Einaudi, 30 votes for Gronchi. Frantically, during the long Italian lunch hour, Fanfani scurried from one party member to another, cracking the whip. But on the second ballot Merzagora not only did not gain, but lost a few votes. What was worse, the conservative faction within the Christian Democrats, which includes former Premier Giuseppe Pella, began voting for Left-Winger Gronchi. This was their revenge against Party Secretary Fanfani, who, when he took over the Christian Democrat machinery nine months ago, had ruthlessly ejected these old-line leaders from the party's executive committee...
...that the days of Premier Scelba are numbered. And faced with such a personal rebuff, it was hard to see how Amintore Fanfani could long continue as party secretary. Whatever Gronchi might or might not do as President until 1962, his election in an atmosphere of doubt, ambiguity and faction, proved that there is nothing resembling strong leadership in Italian politics generally, or in the Christian Democratic Party in particular...