Word: fraternidad
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...original fraternidad, which became a legal corporation in 1902, charged that an upstart group, incorporated in February, was guilty of "fraud and deceit" in calling itself the Concilio Originate and was unfairly competing with the older Penitentes' monopoly on organized self-punishment...
That the Penitentes are also American was disclosed last week as the coming courtroom battle exposed the origins of the quarrel: the new, upstart moradas had been founded by Democrats; the older fraternidad was dominated by Republicans. Though each Penitente scourges only himself, many a Penitente evidently felt that his flesh could best be chastised under a two-party system...
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