Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nailed. A few days later, Deputy Jean Legendre, member of the faction that broke with De Gaulle, implied, without offering proof, that Mendès and his top advisers had been responsible for leaking secret government information to the Communists before he became Premier. Legendre recalled that in August last year ex-President Auriol had summoned the Defense Committee, saying: "There is a traitor among us." Pointing at Mendès' Interior Minister, Francois Mitterrand, Legendre shouted: "Three weeks later you resigned from the Cabinet." Pale with anger, Mendès leapt to his feet, crying: "What...
...neat, sun-warmed little democracy of Uruguay looked as though it had been bombed by a fleet of flying saucers loaded with bingo cards. Every tree, pavement, building, car and lamppost wore a number. Uruguayans do not mind fracturing freely within their traditional parties, and 277 splinter factions were competing for office. Out of deference to the sanity of the Uruguayan voters, they all used numbers instead of names, and politicking became largely a matter of fixing the numbers in voters' minds by poster and paintpot. Of all the 277, no figure was more conspicuous, from the River Plate...
...middle-class social position. He wanted to be a lawyer, but at Kiev University in those turbulent years at the turn of the century, a student had to make a political choice, or forego ambition. Figuring that the Czars were about washed up, Andrei chose the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party. In the abortive 1905 revolution, Vishinsky was arrested along with a bunch of railroad strikers and did time in a Czarist prison...
This middle-of-the-road temper has obvious political advantages for the nation. In the 1954 election the most conspicuous casualties were men with left-wing records (e.g., Idaho's Glen Taylor and California's Robert Condon) and the whole McCarthyite faction, which collapsed with the victory of Clifford Case (denounced by McCarthy) and the defeat of some of those few candidates who dared to run on a platform supporting...
...ugly, long-smoldering dispute exploded last week and split Australia's brawling, sprawling Labor Party wide open. Labor Party Chief Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt, 60, openly declared war on the party's biggest single faction: the Catholic right wing, which contains almost half of Labor's membership...