Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to cool tempers, School Superintendent Bernard Donovan ordered J.H.S. 271 closed for two days, while he held meetings with the school's faction-torn faculty. Then Shanker shattered Donovan's efforts by barging into one of the meetings, and demanding that the union should be represented. Donovan gave up, ordered the school reopened and gave its principal the right to assign the challenged teachers to non-classroom chores. With that, Shanker called for a strike. Only 8,000 of the U.F.T.'s 55,000 members bothered to vote to approve a walkout, but most of them...
...issue of Transaction, Wildavsky reasons that if a "real Republican like Nixon cannot win under present favorable circumstances, there would not appear to be much hope for the Republican Party as it is now constituted." The G.O.P.'s far right might be driven to merge with the Wallace faction. Other Republicans would then have little choice but to coalesce with middleroad Democrats. The extreme Democratic dissidents, without hope of controlling the party, would merge with the New Left to form a third party...
Humphrey's organizational problems are symptomatic of the Democratic Party's disarray. With the Wallace faction and the antiwar wing sapping his strength from right to left, the Vice President has tried to create a centrist constituency of his own. Thus far, his principal positive support has come from leaders of organized labor. Their muscle, of course, is not inconsiderable. Last week a poll of 2,638 United Auto Workers representatives showed 87.8% favoring Humphrey. The executive board of the Teamsters Union urged its 1.9 million members to vote for the Vice President...
Though McCarthy forces were dealt a setback in last week's congressional races, they hope to re-group after November and form a left, reform faction within the party. The goal is to organize in each city and town to control as many votes as possible at the June, 1970 party convention whcih nominates constitutional officers. Convention delegates are chosen by the town and city party committees...
With the state growing rapidly the conservative Byrd-machine which ruled it for several decades has steadily declined during the '60's. In its place three distinct factions have risen. Though the Byrd-machine placed Gov. Mills E. Godwin in office, he has gradually shifted over to the moderate faction of the party; the moderates under Sen. William B. Sprong's leadership are a swing group who now have widespread electoral support; the liberals led by Henry Howell of Norfolk have significant organizational and electoral support in black urban areas and white suburban communities around the District of Columbia...