Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more unions-the Marine Cooks and Stewards and the Fishermen & Allied Workers were scheduled for hearings this week. The Fur & Leather Workers would get the business in June-so would the United Furniture Workers unless a right-wing faction was successful in gaining control. After that the C.I.O. would be able to boast that it had done almost everything to preserve the "basic American trade union objectives" except to order George M. Cohan music on its picket lines...
...speech in their conference room at the Maison du Peuple. Said one Socialist deputy: "A step forward toward national harmony." But the Socialists were making no decision until they learned how other parties interpreted the message. The Christian Socialists were divided, but the more-royalist-than-the-King faction could hardly hold out against the King's compromise...
...satisfactory history; it is rather brief for the prosecution. The authors, like many others, believe Hiss a villain, Chambers a saviour. Other reporters, other spectators believe Hiss is the hero and Chambers is the devil. It is highly unlikely that there is a member of either extremist faction emotionally suited to record the Hiss-Chambers mess in the cool, balanced way that history demands
...Children. Francisco Franco's government, after years of tight-lipped toleration of the anti-Franco monarchists, was cracking down. The dictator's police gave no explanations, made no charges. But by week's end it had jailed incommunicado more than 30 members of the militant monarchist faction, Avan-zadilla Monarquica...
Calhoun's undergraduate cockiness was not unwarranted; seven years after leaving Yale he was in Congress. In 1811 he became Henry Clay's lieutenant in the raucous young "War Hawk" faction which whooped for war against Britain. Afterward, when little "Jemmy" Monroe became President, he offered Calhoun the job of Secretary of War. The ambitious Calhoun grabbed it and did a bangup job. He reformed the Army diet, adding vegetables to the monotonous bread and salt pork, and began projects to extend the Union through exploratory expeditions and the building of a system of national highways...