Word: factions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Read a scathing speech delivered by Viscount Grey of Fallodon at a banquet of Asquithian Liberals, in which their total rupture with the Lloyd George Liberal faction (TIME, Oct. 25) was reaffirmed...
...Edison entered the lists against further skyscrapers. Health officers, mayors' advisers and Henry Ford all cried halt, for obvious practical reasons. And there was a more vociferous though less effective chorus of sociologists, artists and philosophers crying out upon the "Babylonish jumble" of modern city-building. Of this faction, the logical leader was silent. Being a church-builder he was not one to whom newsgatherers would soon run for comments on a dispute in commercial architecture. Yet it was he who years ago wrote: "A walk up Fifth Avenue in New York, from Madison Square to the Park, with...
...budget would go through. The Chamber which last spring cut down Cabinet after Cabinet in an orgy of political double crossing has at last come definitely to its senses. The Sacred Union Cabinet of M. Poincaré (TIME, Aug. 9) has achieved what was possible to no single faction. A period of uneventful balloting upon the hundreds of clauses in the budget loomed. As an urgent prelude there were introduced before the Chamber last week War Minister Painlevé's "economy bills" cutting the French Army from...
Twelve. Who dares oppose Il Duce in the Chamber? It is well known that the 124 Deputies of the Aventine Opposition have not returned since they were clawed, kicked and dragged out by the hair and beard upon their last appearance (TIME, Jan. 25). Is there not some faction of such insignificance that its opposition is tolerated for decorative effect? There is. Giovanni Giolitti, five times Premier, and his twelve "independents" who boast that their votes are cast according to the merits of every question, are tolerated by the 384 Fascists who virtually make up the Chamber. Last week...
...commercial and industrial class in the South, which in 1918 definitely separated from Peking. Under Sun Yat-Sen's leadership these people managed to make their revolution a reality. When their hero died in 1925, the Cantonese carried on his policies. Since Sun Yat-Sen's death, the Southern faction has succeeded in forging their own province into the only real government in China, and two months ago their Revolutionary Army captured by force of arms the three great industrial cities of Central China--Hankow, Hanyang, and Wuchang...