Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most likely outcome is that Georgia will be compelled to hold a new popular election in the next few months. Even this might not settle anything, because the pro-Arnall faction, called Write In Georgia (W.I.G.), is growing in strength. Democratic Representative Charles Weltner, who chose not to run for re-election because he could not stomach Maddox, warned: "We could go on forever with write-ins. We might not have a Governor for four years." Meanwhile, able Incumbent Carl Sanders, 41, who cannot succeed himself, will stay on in the statehouse...
...reconciliation - combining Italy's third and fifth largest parties - came 19 years after Saragat led his moderate, democratic faction out of the main par ty, in protest against a Nenni alliance with the Communists. Over the years, Soviet repression in Hungary and elsewhere changed Nenni's mind about the Reds, and in 1957 he split with the Communists and began the first of his many talks with Saragat about reuniting the two parties. In 1963, when Nenni and Saragat joined the Christian Democrats in Italy's center-left coalition government, the two party leaders finally began talking...
...Extraordinary circumstances also applied in 1912, when the Bull Moose faction split the G.O.P., and in 1936, when Franklin D. Roosevelt swept all before...
That episode left the moderate-conservative faction of the Democratic party without a statewide candidate and propelled Arnall to the front, even though Talmadge and Vandiver both favored James Gray of Albany. An urbane, Massachusetts-born publisher, Gray campaigned against the Great Society, lawlessness, and bragged that his stand during demonstrations in Albany resulted in the jailing of Martin Luther King. Gray, however, despite an enormous advertising campaign, never gained the popularity among the state's hard-core segregationists that Maddox enjoyed...
...outcome of this temporary group, turned out to be a very effective way of fighting police brutality. It also assumed the task of keeping order during the Watts Festival, and the patrol groups were manned by the "grassroots" faction of the community. "When the time came to man these cars," Wright recalls, "the people who could be depended on to be there turned out to be the same people whom the city labels 'bad' and whom the bourgeois Negro considers 'lowclass'...he boys that mingled with the crowd are the same who last year at this time chanted 'Burn, Baby...