Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office. The candidate blessed by all the important Republican organizations is Glenard P. Lipscomb, 38, an earnest, intense certified public accountant who has represented one section of the district in the California State Assembly for the last six years. Lipscomb is considered a member of the California Republican faction headed by Vice President Richard Nixon. Still in the race, despite strong organization pressure to get him out, is Republican John L. Collier, 49, a big, blunt manufacturer's agent who for seven years has represented another section of the district in the State Assembly. Collier is regarded...
Although Cambridge politics knows no party line, the group sending out the cards is a Republican faction. Their two top School Committee selections are also unendorsed by the CCA. Arthur E. Robinson, secretary of the County Civic Organization, said last night "I suppose our use of the letters CCA is a trick in a way, but there is nothing to prevent our using them...
...issue in today's election is whether Cambridge will retain proportional representation. In a shrewd political move, the anti-PR faction has succeeded in having the ballot printed in a manner that is designed to confuse the voter. If a voter favors PR, he must vote NO. If he wants to see it abolished, he votes...
...tried friendship with Peron before-only to have him attack U.S. policy or outrage U.S. opinion by wrecking the great newspaper La Prensa. Peron has even played footie. off & on. with one faction or another of Argentina's Communists. But this week, in a filmed interview for U.S. television, he said: "It would be a most dangerous problem for any of our countries if a government in Latin America . . became Communistic." In that mood, Peron clearly passes the test...
Rather than having adopted tactics usually associated with dictatorships rather than democracies, Britain should have prepared a case against the Jagan faction before moving. It is doubtful that the projected uprising was imminent. Certainly Jagan realized that neither Her Majesty's government nor our own would tolerate an armed Communist rebellion in South America. Besides, Communist sympathizers already had legal control of the government through the ballot. It was precisely because the Communists had so much actual power that Britain had to send in non-Guianan troops...