Word: factionally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last night. Among the casualties on the opposing slate were independent School Committeeman Daniel J. Clinton and City Purchasing Agent Charles F. Watson. In Ward 10, Thomas P. O'Neill III, son of the anti-war Congressman, paced his slate to a victory over the incumbents, and a third faction. In Ward 11 City Councillor Thomas Danchy battled against former Mayor Daniel Hayes and Election Commissioner Thomas J. Hartnett. All three won positions on the committee, but the Danehy slate won a majority of the seats. All in all, the results in these five wards jolted the older politicians...
Although the GSOC slate faces no formal opposition on the ballot, a conservative faction of the Graduate Student Association (GSA) has kept support for the "new left group" at a minimum, according to Margaret Theeman, a member of the Graduate Student Council...
...faction is led by Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Its leadership believes in an innovating activist national executive. Although many of its members back the former Attorney General for emotional or ethnic reasons, the Kennedy faction seems committed to unconventional solu- tions to poverty, crime, prejudice, and leftist revolutions abroad. Kennedy's most articulate supporters believe that time has come to move beyond the social palliatives of the past 35 years to insure decent living standards, education, and employment for all citizens. The mood of many Kennedy supporters is characterized by disgust at the sterility of most liberals' response to national...
...emergence of the Kennedy iconoclasts and the McCarthy moralists, of course, was probably not possible with-race riots, or a TV in every home. Still, the iconoclasts and moralists easily outnumber the Humphrey wing of the party. This faction seems to be composed, in large part, of older people who have grown comfortable and powerful with the FDR-HST-JFK-LBJ brand of liberalism: give a little to everybody at home and keep the Communists at bay abroad...
...President noted that, during a 37-year career, "I have put the unity of the people first," for "a house divided against itself by the spirit of faction, of party, of region, of religion, of race, is a house that cannot stand." Yet, he con tinued, "there is division in the American house now. There is divisiveness among us all tonight." Said the President: "What we won when all of our people united just must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics among any of our people. And believing this as I do, I have concluded...