Word: factional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This time Paul von Hindenburg sent to Wilhelm Marx a letter virtually demanding that the Chancellor's party (Catholic Centrists) compose its differences over the so-called "school bill" with the People's Party, potent faction of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann. These two parties?Catholic, Popular?comprise the main support of the coalition cabinet. They are quarreling over legislation designed to abolish Catholic instruction in the public schools...
...take sides, if Parliament passes the new and further revised prayer book of the Church of England (the State Church). Should a bill approving that volume pass and be placed before the Fifth George, he must either sign or refuse to sign. In either case, the disappointed faction would be alienated from the Throne...
Although the Cosgrave Government is now solidly in power it is menaced by the stubborn faction of famed Eamon de Valera. He collected campaign funds of $150,000 for the last Irish Free State election (TIME, Oct. 24), raising $5,000 in Ireland and $145.000 in the U. S. and Australia. Mr. de Valera is now in the U. S., again soliciting campaign funds; and it is to checkmate him that President Cosgrave comes to the U. S.?however loudly he may protest that his mission is "non-political...
...Marines, 200 Nicaraguan National Guardsmen, and 200 pack mules. Purpose: To capture Quilali, the remote war base of the recalcitrant General Augusto Calderon Sandino whose men were ambushing the defile. Reason: The Sandino troops have been declared outlaws and bandits. Cause: Sandino and his men were the only Nicaraguan faction which refused to lay down and sell their arms under the terms of national peace enforced in Nicaragua by U. S. Marines (TIME...
...McBride represents the Wheeler tradition of alert, energetic lobbying, vote-swaying, political-threatening. Mr. Cherrington represents a faction of the League which conceives that Wheelerism has been misunderstood in the U. S.; that the League's moneyed lobbying has made the League almost unpopular; that the League's wisest course now is to spend its millions after the fashion of manufacturers of tomato soup and cigarets, on national advertising and an "educational" campaign...