Word: factions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Students for Nixon group plans to bring Vice-President Nixon to the University next fall and hopes to spearhead a national Students-for-Nixon movement. The Parsons faction has been in close correspondence with Jerry A. Coons, president of the Trojan Young Republican Club of the University of Southern California, about sale of Nixon buttons for campaign funds...
Replying to a question from the audience about recent charges of "bossism" levelled against him by the "liberal" faction of New York Democratic leaders, DeSapio said "I do not want to engage in semantic pyrotechnics." The party is in a state of "healthy agitation," he pointed out, adding "we can never get everyone to agree...
...their former masters.) Eustace's lunacy revolved around the theological implications of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species. He would bribe maidservants with a guinea in order to investigate whether or not they had tails: discovery of a vestigial caudal appendage of course would help the Darwinian faction. His scientific passion caused his social ruin during the visit of a German grand duchess whose family was reputed to be fitted with a Darwinian decoration...
When Thompson and his opponent, Paul F. Mackesey, athletic director, were ushered to the platform amid booing, hissing, cheering undergraduates, the instructor appeared to be outnumbered by the athletic faction of the campus. But he appealed to the crowd to join "the dialogue," and proceeded in Socratic tones...
...chief difficulty lies in the fact that the Cypriot extremist group, the EOKA faction, has demanded not merely Cypriot liberty from British rule but also union with Greece. It is not at all clear that EOKA will find even a free Cyprus acceptable. Furthermore, potential dangers to the successful working out of the proposal lie in the concurrent majority scheme itself. When the Turkish vice-president uses his veto, how will it be accepted by the Greek majority which will control two-thirds of the single-chambered legislature. It would be naive to assume that from now on life will...