Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington newsmen were astounded. No U.S. official had ever before made such a bare-faced endorsement of a political faction in the elections of a friendly country, especially where both the leading rival parties were non-Communist and professed friendship...
...Harlem's increasing voting strength. Last month they nominated independent Democrat Elmer A. Carter, 63, for eight years a member of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination, for the borough presidency of Manhattan, the city's most important county. Quickly, Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri's faction of New York's badly split Democrats selected Colonel Chauncey Hooper, 59, an assistant deputy comptroller of the city and a staff officer in the New York National Guard, for the same office. In a supporting speech, the mayor told Harlem voters that he hoped they would vote...
...Didn't Happen. Loudly touted in the press last winter was a forthcoming death struggle between Eisenhower and the conservative wing of his party in Congress. To those who believed this prophecy, the big news of the session was that it failed to happen. An anti-Eisenhower Republican faction never raised its head. This was partly due to Taft's skill and loyalty, partly to Eisenhower's enormous prestige, and partly to the fragmented character of Congress...
...Faction v. Faction. Soon afterward, a new statue appeared on Don Silvio's lawn -a large toad with a human head. Carmine Guarino saw it and made the mistake of complaining in public. Soon all of Contrada was flocking to the Capuana estate to look at the new portrait and laugh at its subject. Professor Guarino writhed in an agony of shame. Silvio broke precedent by driving into the village to write, "Life can be beautiful," in bold, black letters on the side of his desecrated tomb. Carmine promptly brought suit for defamation of character...
...last week the report was in. It covered 117 interviews and 348 pages, produced no evidence that Ebey had ever been a Communist, a fellow traveler, or disloyal to the U.S. It did show that, in the A.V.C., he had failed to take a strong stand against the Communist faction, had even seemed at times to collaborate with them "to save the organization." Was this enough to cost him his job? One night last week, the school board met to decide...