Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among labor's losers in the House were such union stalwarts as Andrew Biemiller of Wisconsin, who helped lead the northern faction against the Dixiecrats in 1948; Andy Jacobs of Indiana, a onetime labor lawyer; Thomas Burke of Ohio, a C.I.O. member; Stephen Young of Ohio, who had retired Taft's friend George Bender in 1948, only to be beaten by Bender...
...Bevan faction of the Labor Party, which has been pressing for an early election, was mildly rebuked by Prime Minister Attlee in his address to the conference. Attlee reaffirmed the government's determination to carry out Socialist policy with a "small but solid" majority. Polls taken throughout the country showed little change in popular opinion since the February election. Attlee had little hope of substantially increasing his majority and the Conservatives had little confidence that they could upset Labor. The word around Margate was that the election would be "soon, but not yet." Meanwhile, a middleaged, well-tailored Labor...
Aspirin & Peace. After 40 years of behind-the-scenes politicking, usually as a member of the out-of-power faction, clever Laureano Gómez, 61, took his inauguration in full stride. He pledged non-violent democratic government, but claimed that the state of siege was still necessary to preserve peace. Said he: "We'll give the patient aspirin as long as the fever continues." The Liberals, Gómez said, "won't recognize me. I respect their point of view. For them I am not President, so naturally I cannot appoint them [to my government...
These clashing points of view were summed up by an impartial churchman: "It is a question of emphasis. One faction says that we must teach people how to say their prayers, but we must also see that they have good working conditions and have a just deal. The other faction says that if you emphasize the working conditions and the just deal too much, you're tackling a problem which will never be entirely solved, and people may forget how to say their prayers. If you fight Communism, which talks about a heaven on earth, just by saying...
Into the Open. Last week Maclean's magazine, in an article by Ottawa Editor Blair Fraser, brought the argument into the open. Author Fraser gave unstinted support to the Levesque faction and belabored the opposing group. "The Duplessis government," he charged, "has used every kind of pressure on Laval University to fire [Levesque]; ultra-conservatives in the Quebec clergy have twice carried their war against him to the Vatican itself . . ." To force the issue at Laval, continued Fraser, Duplessis had withheld half of a provincial $4,000,000 grant...