Word: factionalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fraught with possibilities. As Senator Moses, Chairman of the Republican Senatorial Committee admitted: " It will rest with Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin and his friends." So the Administration, in order to pass its measures, will either have to placate the insurgent Republicans or secure the cooperation of a faction of the Democrats. In some cases the latter of these two courses may be the easier. The Democrats, for example, are much nearer to the regular Republicans on the railroad issue than is the La Follette group...
...entrance of this country into the present League. Both of these classes, whom we may call on the one hand 'isolationists' and on the other 'moderate international associationists', lack any strong foundation for their unwillingness to cooperate with the League as it is now constituted. The former faction, basing their stand on the words of Washington, confuse the meaning underlying his statements, while the latter group, favoring some sort of international organization, overlook in their plans for a new association, the difficulty of inducing the 52 members of the present League to agree with their ideas...
...side of the World Court issue is largely confined to agitation within the Republican party. It is too early to classify the opinions of the party as a whole-all shades of opinion are to be found. There is no open break as yet between the President and any faction over the Court issue. Reports continue to say that the President will press the issue. Senator Watson and others are opposed to his doing so-largely, it is assumed, in fear of the consequences in the elections of 1924. Senator Hiram Johnson is expected to lead the isolationists...
...were selected by a committee of the National Student Forum, under whose auspices they are touring America, as men representative of their nation as a whole and not of any political faction or dogma...
...useful citizen in a Christian country. Finally, although they admitted that forced attendance prejudiced some men hopelessly against religion, the supporters of the compulsory Chapel system declared that the inspiration, which many students who would not voluntarily go to church, received, overbalanced the continued indifference of the other faction...