Word: whig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's clamorous early years, parties grew, split and withered like excited amoebas. Hamilton's Federalists and Jefferson's Republicans faded away, and the Whigs and the Democrats took their place. Splinter parties were formed on such frenetic issues as a fanatical prejudice against Masons (the Anti-Masons), or a dislike for foreign-born citizens (the Americans or "Know-Nothings," who carried six states in 1854, captured 22% of the popular vote in 1856 for Millard Fillmore). In 1844, the anti-slavery Liberty Party, with a piddling 62,300 votes, drew enough Whig support in New York...
...passionate defense of Lincoln's maligned successor in which spleen ran as deep as fact. Now in For the Defense he still writes like a lawyer on retainer, but his defense is framed in frank hero worship. The hero: Thomas Erskine, great 18th Century English barrister and Whig Lord Chancellor of England in the reign of George...
Liberia's True Whig Party President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman did not hear about the trouble right away. He was busy on one of his frequent trips along the coast.* In Monrovia, Secretary of State Gabriel Dennis regretted the incident, was sure accounts were exaggerated, handsomely offered U.S. armed forces the protection of Liberian armed forces...
...Victorian building, a bust by Jacob Epstein glares down on the editorial floor, where a few stubborn oldsters still scribble in longhand amid the clacking typewriters of fresh-faced Oxonians. It is the image of Charles Prestwich Scott, the Guardian's late, greatest editor, who built a provincial Whig organ into English liberalism's bravest voice...
...existence. Force and inertia, action and reaction, change and stability, the dynamic and the static - without this universal dualism, meaning and reality, on the human plane at least, vanish into nothingness." Author Orton finds confirmation of the deep "political instinct of the English that out of the struggles of Whig and Tory two strong parties finally emerged frankly calling themselves Liberal and Conservative. Each has developed in mod ern times its central core of philosophy going well beyond matters of mere interest or expediency. ... It is unfortunate that no such development has taken place in the United States...