Word: splintering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional Young Republican Club and Young Democratic Club yielded to growing splinter political clubs, remnants of the "single issue" cubs of the previous year. This increased involvement with public affairs brought one interesting problem to the students of Harvard College...
...counselor of the Development Minister of Indonesia, declared his country is facing a major reconnection from its war of independence. A new and inexperienced government, said, must try to satisfy the needs of people whose average yearly income is than $100, while at the same time to reconcile extremist splinter ties into a stable government...
...Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge got widespread support for an amendment specifying that each state's electoral vote be divided in proportion to its popular vote. The Senate in 1950 passed the proposal, but the House Rules Committee blocked it. Principal argument against the proportional system is that splinter parties could gain great power. Had a proportional system prevailed at the times of Lincoln (1860), Wilson (1912) and Truman-all of whom won less than a popular majority-the votes of splinter parties would have sent the contests into the House of Representatives. In 1960 a proportional count would...
...African Congress, a splinter group of Chief Albert Luthuli's leading African National Congress, decided to test its strength among African workers by calling for the massive demonstration against the "pass laws," the symbol of White rule...
...Membership of the Northern Baptist Conference: 1,500,000. The two major Negro Baptist groups are the National Baptist Convention of America with 3,500,000 members, and the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. with 5,000,000. About one million Baptists belong to splinter groups...