Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convention was its own supreme court in party matters, and both the 1944 and 1948 Republican Conventions had recognized Georgia delegations led by W. Roscoe Tucker, who now headed the pro-Eisenhower group. Nevertheless, the Taftmen, by a vote of 30 to 21, recommended that the pro-Taft faction be seated at the convention...
...argument was completed, Monte Appel, No. i contest man for the Taft forces, struck the unexpected blow. If the Foster group were seated, he said evenly, Harry Sommers would be re-elected as national committeeman. Or, in plain words, if Sommers would scratch the back of the Foster faction by repudiating his official delegation, Foster & Co. would scratch his by supporting him for another term...
Wisdom summed up: "In every case when the Jackson faction lost, it held a small rump meeting-in a corner of a meeting place, or on the sidewalk, or somewhere under a tree in the dark." He maintained that the Louisiana delegation should be 13 for Ike, two for Taft...
Foolish Strategy. The old soldier's smashing frontal attack was aimed at the Democratic Administration. In no sense was it a speech favoring the Taft faction as against Eisenhower...
...Hickenlooper's side rallied Democratic allies: Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Illinois' Paul Douglas, Majority Leader Ernest McFarland of Arizona. In an attempt to save the day for the Senate's let's-get-out-of-Washington faction, Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar got to his tired old feet. McKellar swore that the House would never abandon the rider, and that, anyway, the bill wasn't such a bad one. But after McKellar had slumped back into his chair, Hickenlooper and his supporters won the day. At dawn, in a turbulent voice vote, the Senate...