Word: factionally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Labor's militancy is also prompted in part by inter-and intra-union rivalries, which force each faction to try to win more than its competitor. A bitter feud between the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-affiliated American Federation of Teachers and the older National Education Asso ciation has escalated teachers' demands in the past few years. Similarly, Walter Reuther may have been less ready for his U.A.W. to settle with Ford because of his own longstanding differences with A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany...
...tung's chaotic kingdom these days. But nowhere does the chaos seem quite so complete as in Canton. From day to day in the city of 2.5 million, it is difficult to tell just who is taking sides against whom-and why. Near anarchy has seen one faction of Red Guards pitted against another, and when they have not been otherwise occupied, Mao's bullyboys have turned on workers. Workers have taken arms against other workers, and vandals have mocked any semblance of authority...
...arch-conservative candidates for the national offices--including former Birchite Dottee Francher of Arizona, the new co-chairman--scored easy victories over more moderate opponents. But the fact that new chairman Jack McDonald represents ultra-conservatism is not half so significant as the fact that he represents a small faction, known almost mystically as "the Syndicate...
...decision not to seat the New Jersey delegation. The state's senior party, led by its chairman Webster Todd, had selected the delegation after ousting YR chairman Richard F. Plechner last year. Plechner was the leader of the far-right Rat Finks, an anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-Negro faction of the YR's, numbering about 100, who managed to capture the leadership of New Jersey's 6000-member YR organization...
...year Liu began openly counseling moderation in Red China's revolution, and he sent so-called "work teams" into the provinces to build up his following among the party's rank and file. Last summer, while Mao was on a trip to southern China, Liu's faction called an emergency meeting of the party's Central Committee to try to vote Mao out of power. But Mao got wind of the meeting and managed to have it postponed until his return. Then he declared all-out war on Liu. Red Guard cartoons began depicting the gaunt...