Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gasperi's Christian Democratic Party is composed of widely divergent political factions, held together in the past by a common fear of Communism and by De Gasperi's skill as a compromiser. One of the factions that has been acting up is the Frondisti* who are left-wingers and want a faster program of social reform. At the other end of the Demo-Christian spectrum is a right-wing faction which wants less social reform (notably, less land reform). Its members are known as the Vespisti, because they meet in the club-rooms of Rome's Vespa...
...Another faction that has been angered by the recent elections is the maids at the Business School. Union members there charge Mulvihill boasted he could get "81 out of their (the maids) 85 votes." Several maids claim that they were approached before the elections and at the polls by men telling them to vote right, "if they liked working here...
...committee was appointed at Tuesday night's election meeting after charges of vote buying and unfair election practices had been levelled against leaders of the club by Sanford J. Langa '51 and John Gregg '52. Gregg and Langa, leaders of a faction within the H.Y.R.C., were dismissed from the club on a charge of vote buying...
...recordings showed, according to Poole, that Gregg, Langa, and Bingham were trying to pay the dues of new members who were pledged to vote with the anti-club leadership faction that the three were leading...
Another opposition candidate for office, allied with the Langa-Gregg faction, Walter S. Rosenberry, III '53, was forced out of the election by the threat of releasing the recordings, Wilson claimed...