Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O., who got to know Estes well in the liberal faction of the Texas Democratic Party. Holleman's name first broke into the Estes scandal when it got out that Holleman had asked Estes and other Texans to ante up for a big dinner party given by Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg last January for Lyndon Johnson. Holleman admitted it, but said that he had not consulted Goldberg in advance. Goldberg offered to produce canceled checks to prove that he had paid the bills himself, and the tremor passed away...
...German press, which had joined most of the nation's politicians in denunciation of the price rise, began to have second thoughts about Erhard's tactics. Wrote the Banner Rundschau: "It is necessary to recall the basic foundations of our economy ... No Cabinet, no minister, no Bundestag faction can replace entrepreneurs' freedom of decision, no matter whether one regards those decisions as good...
...entire Italian right, including a die-hard faction in the Christian Democratic Party itself, bitterly opposes the government's proposed reforms and its alliance with a Socialist Party once closely linked to the Communists. The Christian Democratic right wing, which until now has grudgingly co-operated with the progressive coalition, could wreck it by withdrawing its support...
...Socialist Party itself, support of the new government is far from unanimously approved. Almost half the Party opposes association with an anti-Communist government and urges a return to the "frontism" of the 'forties. Should the Communists find an adequate excuse for categorical rejection of the government, this considerable faction within the Socialist Party is expected to follow them into opposition...
...gunners at the windows and emplacing bazooka teams in the flower beds outside. Rauch called up his tanks, and the two sides rumbled ominously. After 24 tense hours, an uneasy truce was made. Both generals resigned their posts; then the Argentine navy sided with Poggi's hard-line faction to swing the balance of power. There could be little question who had won: Poggi, the hardliner...