Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noisy Backfire. Carefully hand-picked as the candidate by G.O.P. leaders, Clifford Case, an Eisenhower Republican, nevertheless ran into trouble not long after the campaign began. A small, reactionary G.O.P. faction began trying to force Case off the ballot on the grounds that he was 1) a weak candidate, and 2) not a Republican. Led by James P. Selvage, a onetime (1933-38) pressagent for the National Association of Manufacturers, the anti-Case faction contended that the nominee was a dangerous left-winger, the darling of the C.I.O. and of the Americans for Democratic Action...
...writing their lyrics, the anti-Case faction ignored the fact that the New Jersey A.D.A. (which has found both Case and Howell "endorsable"), is a minuscule organization with no real political strength. But to the ultraconservative element of New Jersey, it was a handy bad word to tie to Cliff Case. From the start, the movement had no chance of getting Case off the ballot. No important leader of New Jersey Republicanism ever joined it. There was talk about a write-in campaign for former U.S. Representative Fred Hartley (Taft-Hartley), but no one thought has-been Hartley would...
...demonstration in Morris County was but another step in the New Jersey Republican Party's efforts toward self-destruction. In 1953 G.O.P. leaders threw away the governorship by putting up a weak candidate, New Jersey Turnpike Builder Paul Troast. This year a party faction that had learned the lesson of 1953 got able, popular Cliff Case to resign from a $40,000-a-year Ford Foundation job and take the nomination for the U.S. Senate. A short time later, after Case issued a statement attacking Joe McCarthy, the Old Guard faction began to make trouble...
...Union Oil of California. He was also an airline engineer (with Western Air Express, a forerunner of the present T.W.A.). He is now a director of four or five companies. Although he is, not surprisingly, a Republican, he has taken no active part in politics, has favored no particular faction of the G.O.P...
...prepare for this year's big fight, Fred Hall stirred up moribund elements of the Republican Old Guard, combined them with insurgent Young Republicans, and made himself the leader of a faction described by the Wichita Beacon as a "collection of defeated candidates, disgruntled public employees and power-hungry persons who have been shunted aside in past weeks, months or years." Most prominent of Hall's backers: Alfred M. Landon, who was shunted off onto a siding in the 1936 presidential election...