Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Looms this spring a French general election. Will the "Sacred Union Cabinet" of Premier Raymond Poincare hold together and face the country as a unit? For months jockeying politicians have been trying to engineer a split. Last week a great speech, eight hours long, was delivered on two successive days by Premier & Finance Minister Poincare. When he sat down virtually all correspondents cabled that the union of his Cabinet for election purposes is now monolithic. Was this news? Characteristically, the U. S. press played down or omitted a story of quiet, constructive achievement, so lacking in the ever welcome promise...
...Borah's attempts to force a plank on Prohibition. But on the whole, the Republicans' present prosperous administration gives them an inestimable advantage. And with the parties representing, as they do now, two nearly equal, mighty, and issueless machines for the nomination for president by political bosses, a split in the Democratic party would be inevitably fatal...
...goal of the seven wise men, comprising the Indian Statutory Commission (TIME, Jan. 9) is nobly to create a work able plan which will bring more autonomous sovereignty and wider democracy to 318,940,000 backward, caste-divided Indians, now split among themselves upon an infinitude of religious and political issues. If these seven men can devise a plan which will content both India and Britain they will have wrought like titans, heroes, messiahs. Said Sir John Simon, last week. "This is the biggest job I know. Now I will have...
Loomed one real issue, it arose from a hard fact: The Americas are split in regard to great triune ideal of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. The U. S. stresses Fraternity because there are invested in Latin America some five billions of U. S. dollars. Fraternity is the best policy when seasoned with a little intervention...
...purely Congressional parties, the above ranking does not hold good. Not even James Clement Dunn ever split the hair of precedence between Mrs. President of the Senate (who is also Mrs. Vice President of the U. S.) and Mrs. Speaker of the House, who remain equally august in their husbands' bicameral spheres. Perhaps this hair will never be split, for, last week, James Clement Dunn's efficiency at policing drawing rooms was recognized by his promotion to the head of a newly created "Division of Protocols" in the State Department. His newly added duties will be to arrange...