Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artistic portrait of the worker and his overlord. Each wrestles with the other to retain his inherited rights; yet it is clear that both are being beaten by rapid industrialization which forces everyone to abandon the traditional methods in order to survive. For two thirds of the movie each faction moves nearer and nearer to the inevitable clash. But, unaccountably, just at the point of pitched battle the cameras leave their social drama in the dust of a town square and turn their lens on a tragic but relatively uninteresting love story...
...constitution, the S.N.V.A. limits voting membership to those who have a personal "commitment to non-violence as a way of life." Tucker indicated that the members of the Peace Council faction were "not in harmony with this view...
Although the Republicans, with a faction of 16 percent, favored Eisenhower 2 to 1 over any other G.O.P. contestant, they were outnumbered by the Democrats with 31 percent. Fifty-three percent of the faculty voted independent...
...Kingan went into the red the last two quarters of 1951. The "palace guard" charged that Willkie was throwing money away. Willkie denied any extravagance, said that 1951's ratio of selling and administrative expenses to sales was .042% less than in the previous year. Retorted the Sinclair faction: manufacturing expenses rose about 19% during...
...With his election victory safely tucked away, Juan Perón moved to square his account with the army, largely because this faction...