Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historical perspective, Epps discerns two main Negro movements in the U.S.: the traditionally radical branch and the conservative faction. The radicals started with the DuBois Clubs and moved to NAACP and its sub-groups which are supported by the Negro intellectuals and leaders, while the Conservatives centered around the Urban League and the National Negro Business League. The Conservatives, Epps says, are the descendants of Booker T. Washington and feel that they must prove themselves worthy before they can enter white society...
...third term, is anxious to demonstrate that he and State Attorney General Waggoner Carr, his hand-picked candidate for the U.S. Senate against Republican Incumbent John Tower, are not Washington-controlled puppets. In the process he aims also to galvanize conservative support against the liberal faction that hopes to seize control of the party at the forthcoming state Democratic convention. While critical of the President's domestic spending policies, the Governor carefully ascribes them to "bad advice from the Eastern Establishment," and has thunderously endorsed Johnson's stand in Viet...
...educational, all right. The experts, in remarkable agreement, were of scant comfort to the committee's clamorous antiwar faction. On Viet Nam, their testimony in all but accent virtually echoed Lyndon Johnson. The conflict is not a civil war, as Fulbright and many other liberals like to think, said Harvard Historian John K. Fairbank, but rather the current arena for what may be a longterm, historical struggle between the U.S. and China. He reasoned that the Communists must be stopped in their attempt to take over South Viet Nam, which he regards as their testing ground for other potential...
...small-scale activities centered around the House. When Leverett does something, it does it big. If it's athletics, Leverett wins the Straus Trophy; if it's drama, Leverett stages a full-scale opera. Instead of wide participation on an amateurish level, there is serious participation by a dedicated faction and relative indifference on the part of non-participators...
...every Peronista has been glad to see her. Perón sent her over partly to whip into line those faction chiefs who want to move on without the aging strongman, notably tough Augusto ("El Lobo") Vandor, who since her return has taken over the giant General Confederation of Labor, historic citadel of Peronismo. Perón obviously hoped that Isabelita would prove as dynamic and domineering as his previous wife, the fabulous Evita-and Isabelita has rallied 14 of the 52 Peronista Deputies in Parliament and 18 of the 62 Peronista unions, claims 20% of the rank and file...