Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accused their leaders of moving too slowly and becoming puppets of the Johnson Administration. At the Urban League's convention in Philadelphia, David Rusk, 25, son of Secretary of State Dean Rusk and an associate director of the Washington, D.C., league, emerged as a leader of a militant faction, challenged the league to be "unreasonable" in its demands for the Negro in the ghetto. "How much do you have to show your 'black bourgeoisie' board member," asked Rusk, "before he decides that it's about time to shelve his old, comfortable image of the Urban League...
...Keith, 49, as deputy chairman and chief executive of the com bine, the Hill team pushed ahead with deals that offended the traditional can ons of the Samuel group, and often did so without telling them. Managing a takeover of Selfridge's, the London department store, the Hill faction went so far as to raise its bid for shares with out consulting other underwriters...
...soldier who sticks rigidly to the traditional army code, Onganía is a man of quiet authority and determination. After President Arturo Frondizi's overthrow in 1962, it was Onganía as commander of the army's crack motorized cavalry corps who routed a military faction favoring old-style, jack-booted dictatorship, and who later paved the way for Illia's election in 1963. For his pains, Onganía was made a lieutenant general and named army commander in chief. But as his country's problems piled higher and higher, Ongan...
...target the international affairs department of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-whose militantly anti-Red policies were shaped by Jay Lovestone, 67, an almost-forgotten ideological dissident who in 1929 was purged as the national secretary of the U.S. Communist Party by Stalin, for a decade thereafter ran his own splinter faction, the Lovestonites, and in 1940 turned bitterly anti-Red. In Hall's romantic view, Old Comrade Lovestone's present operation is "an arm of the CIA involved in trying to get governments overthrown...
...Each faction has had its own interests to defend. Rockefeller, facing a rough third-term campaign, cast himself disingenuously in the role of "honest broker," infuriating Lindsay by his lack of direct support. Lindsay's reformist zeal, in turn, only alienated upstate legislators, who instinctively recoiled from the prospect of taxing commuters in order, as they saw it, to finance the city's sacrosanct, heavily subsidized 150 transit fare. The wrangling forced two extensions in the city's deadline for enacting its 1966-67 budget; the second expired last week...