Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...group of janitors petitioned Mulvihill for the meeting, asking the HUERA head to present a full audit of the union's finances. When the pro-Mulvihill faction among the janitors heard of the petition, they called it an AFL plot to destroy the HUERA...
...mantle never fitted. In 1949, Lodge led 14 liberal Republicans in an attempt to win the Senate G.O.P. leadership, but went down before the Taft regulars. Lodge has never quite succeeded in holding together that band of 14, or in serving as their spokesman . . ." In fact, the Taft faction has repeatedly called for his head, both openly and through the medium of the isolationist press--which is the real reason for the Chicago Tribune's, and Basil Brewer's support of Kennedy. Not only is Lodge distrusted by these men, but he lacks the power or prestige to keep them...
...wounds Labor had inflicted on itself at the party conference in Morecambe two weeks earlier were still suppurating. The Attleeites now ceased to hope that they could cure galloping Bevanitis without drastic surgery. At a meeting in Stalybridge, former Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell openly accused the Bevanite faction of playing ball with Communists. "I was told by some observers," he said, "that about one-sixth of the constituency party delegates [at Morecambe] appear to be Communists or Communist-inspired ... It is now quite clear . . . from what we saw at Morecambe that we were wrong to let all this...
...said the Democrats have "sold out" to the anti-civil rights faction in the party. Calling Sparkman's selection to the ticket a purely political move, Schroeder quoted him as having said, "I am against the civil rights proposals--always have been and always will...
...denied that the "so-called isolationist" faction would control the party if Ike was elected. Braucher believes that the "isolationists" do not want to radically change our foreign policy, but simply want "things to be carried out in a sensible way." He feels that they will certainly support a foreign policy if they have confidence in the man who is going to carry out that policy. Ike, he thinks, can inspire this confidence...