Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glenard Paul Lipscomb, endorsed by his local party organization, was backed by Vice President Richard Nixon and California's new Governor Goodwin Knight. The other Republican, John L. Collier, was the candidate of the opposing faction (followers of ex-Governor Earl Warren, now U.S. Chief Justice, and Senator William Knowland). The Democratic candidate was George Arnold, 32-year-old son of Trustbuster Thurman Arnold and a son-in-law of Columnist Drew Pearson...
...resembled the England she came to rule. What Mary called the "new" religion was already "old" to many Englishmen. The Protestant party was not, as she imagined, composed of a few erring men who had "been misled, or frightened into the new ways." It was a powerful, well-rooted faction made up partly of ardently religious men, partly of landlords who dreaded that Mary would give back to the Church the rich monastic properties which Henry VIII had shared out. When the "old" service returned to the parish churches, London was strewn with antipapist pamphlets and broadsheets; men gathered together...
...charged that this faction has wrapped itself in the claim of patriotism "to such a point that it has all but monopolized the American flag...
...said the same bitterness was true of those who believe in the freedom of the human individual. "These people believe that if freedom is lost, no matter at whose hands, America is lost. To them, the faction that would sacrifice liberty to the fight against communism is no better than the Communist Party itself...
...dictated to the president the policy that beat off an attempt to incorporate the H.U.E.R.A. into the A.F.L. Although new himself to organized labor, he had the advice of two old pros. Slocum has been in union work since 1919, and Robert Green, another leader in the anti-Mulvihill faction, has had almost as much experience. Under this tutelage, McNamara quickly picked up the tricks of the trade...