Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politics he was a Republican and staunch party man. When Roosevelt started the Progressive party, he said he would rather " quit politics than split his party." On the other hand, he supported President Wilson on the League of Nations issue, denouncing the irreconcilables. He helped write the Republican tariff plank and yet attacked the Fordney-McCumber Tariff for its wool duties. An enemy of the Non-Partisan League in the Northwest, an opponent of the soldier bonus (although one of the two civil war veterans in the Senate), a supporter of the Dyer anti-lynching bill and an advocate...
...Freshmen split even in their last two contests, easily taking a game from Taft 12-1 but losing to Choate in the most cleanly played game of the trip by the score...
After deliberating 31 hours and taking 38 ballots, the jury of eleven men and one woman which tried William Z. Foster at St. Joseph, Mich., on the charge of criminal syndicalism split in a six-six deadlock. The indications are that Mr. Foster will not be retried...
...discussing the verdict, Russell Dunn, a grocer, and one of the jurors voting for acquittal, said'. "They didn't give us the dope. The prosecution didn't prove that the Communist Party advocated violence. That was the only thing we split on. We kept arguing about that until everybody got tired, but nobody changed his mind all the way through...
...effects of the Action Française has been to split the Catholics into two parties, some remaining good republicans, but a large number joining the ranks of the royalists...