Word: factions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very big limited war, or one that broke out in several parts of the world simultaneously, for us not to be able to cope with it." Special problem, still unresolved: civil war where the U.S. cannot commit its own forces, yet cannot afford to let a Communist-backed faction...
Although Steinle still has an uphill battle, his least expected asset for November is that it is now the Democrats who are plagued with faction fights and feuds. Last fortnight State Senator Gaylord Nelson, Democratic candidate for Governor against hard-to-beat G.O.P. incumbent Governor Vernon Thomson, launched a crunching head-on attack against Ticket-Mate Bill Proxmire. Reason: Proxmire invited Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson to speak at Milwaukee's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner on May 17, and even though Johnson could not come, Nelson took after him as the spokesman for Texas oil interests inimical to Wisconsin...
Keep Your Shirt On. One of the most vocal members of the antitax faction was George Humphrey, former Secretary of the Treasury, now board chairman of National Steel Corp. Snorted Humphrey: "They say a budget deficit is needed to cure the recession. Well, we've got one already." The tax cut he sponsored in 1954 was an "honest" tax cut, said Humphrey, because it was covered by savings in Government spendings. But present tax cut proposals are "dishonest" because they involve bigger Government deficits. Humphrey's formula for curing the recession: "Keep your shirt on." Against this view...
...stand "quite strange, since I am vice-president of an organization chartered by the Republican Party, of which Eisenhower is the leader. It is paradoxical that any club supporting Eisenhower should reject my application for membership." Like most of the HEC's 30 members, Bernat supports the Stalker-Peterson faction of the HYRC, while Claussen is a member of the Dawson group...
...spirit with the idealism of those honored; others felt that a memorial would be meaningless unless it had a practical use. Some suggested stone tablets engraved with the names of the dead, a simple statue of Leonidas, or a garden extending from the Yard to the river. The other faction pressed for a gymnasium, a new auditorium, or the establishment of a special scholarship fund. In the hope that some one project might be found which a majority of graduates would favor, the Associated Harvard Clubs appointed a 43-man War Memorial Committee...