Word: factions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, dour, cigar-raddling William Langer made life miserable for North Dakota's regular Republican organization, caterwauling his way to victory as a member of a theoretically Republican faction known as the Non-Partisan League, and voting anti-Republican every chance he got. But in 1956 the Non-Partisan League split up, part of it going over to the Democratic Party, the other part joining the regular Republicans. In that breakup, the Republicans got saddled with U.S. Senator Bill Langer. And having got him, last week they tried to get rid of him: the state G.O.P. convention voted...
Next President? Defeat of his faction was a blow to León Valencia. Last year, seeking to amplify the parties' fifty-fifty nonaggression principle to include the presidency, Lleras Camargo and an anti-Gómez faction of the Conservatives agreed upon León Valencia as a single candidate for the presidential election set for May 4. But Gómez, on his return from Spain, forced Lleras to reopen the question and agree that unless León Valencia won the approval of a majority of the new Congress, he would no longer be the joint...
Lawyer Arturo Frondizi, 49, leader of the left-wing faction of the sprawling, middle-of-the-road Radical Party, won Argentina's presidential election this week after the first truly free campaign the country had known in 30 years. With a growing five-to-three margin in the key districts, he apparently handed his opponent, moderate Radical Ricardo Balbin, a decisive licking...
...elections scheduled later this year, Todd would be a liability in the battle against the white-supremacy Dominion Party. For 1½ hours Todd spoke in his own defense, and on the first ballot to determine a party leader, Todd topped the poll. The leader of the reactionary faction, Sir Patrick Fletcher, was eliminated from the race. But on the next ballot Todd mustered only 129 votes to 193 for a compromise candidate, Sir Edgar Whitehead, 53, the Federation's minister in Washington...
...Party succeeded in doing so this week. The tabloid (circ. 5,574) died despite feverish rescue attempts by Editor in Chief (and a party secretary) John W. Gates, 44, who was cut off from party funds in a long-drawn-out squabble (TIME, Jan. 13) with the dominant Stalinist faction led by Party Chief William Z. Foster. As the Daily Worker went, so went Editor Gates's party card. After 27 years in the service of a foreign tyranny, Gates quit, declared that the U.S. Communist Party is finished, "an impotent political sect...