Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wisdom in meeting the World Socialist Party. We are contemplating an alumni fund drive to increase our endowment, and, in the fact of possible Congressional investigation of Harvard, a group in the Council felt we would damage the fund drive by meeting the Socialists. However, a larger faction in the Council felt that we had a moral obligation to meet them and could not afford to compromise our integrity...
...couldn't beat the dilettante faction...
...finally, at 5 o'clock one morning last week, after 67 hours of unrelieved parliamentary inferno, the Chamber came to a vote. The 180 Communists and fellow-traveling Socialists of Pietro Nenni's faction marched out without voting. The rest voted 339 to 25 to approve the electoral reform bill, and sent it on to the Senate. Foresighted attendants transferred the emergency cots to the anterooms of the Senate...
...almost every proposal was a barb that brought squeals of dissent from some faction of the Assembly. But Antoine Pinay, who understands the common Frenchman, was reaching beyond the Assembly to the public. "The remedies are neither of the right nor of the left," he said. ". . . They are technical measures to be taken in a climate of political truce...
...representatives of national groups, but as individuals interested in various American studies; what groupings did develop were far more a result of mutual interests that of nationality and did not "undermine" but benefited in that they helped greatly in the interchange of ideas and opinions. As for the specific faction referred to, it simply did not exist; there was no evidence at this summer's Seminar for the implication that a miniature Axis was formed...