Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Pressure. For Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman, who led the five-man Southern wing of the subcommittee over the rough flooring of the plank, the results were "palatable"; i.e., the plank was not shoved down his throat. His willingness to negotiate had kept the committee from blowing up altogether. But he and his fellow Southerners were sure of one thing: they would not countenance a change in the wording that would indicate any pledge to implement the Supreme Court's decision. This settled, John McCormack called for a vote at 2:45 a.m. For the record...
...Collaboration. By itself, La Pira's party had only 25 out of 60 council seats while a left-wing coalition (Communist, Nenni Socialist and four independent Marxists) held 27. Left-wingers crowed that La Pira could stay in office only by accepting Communist support, thereby beginning Italy's first conspicuous "collaboration between Catholicism and Marxism," which Christian Democratic national headquarters steadfastly opposes. This La Pira flatly refused...
...flay those with whom he disagreed. His suggested solution in the early days of Mau Mau terrorism was characteristically simple: "Catch a hundred of these rascals and hang 25 of them in front of the others . . . they are just black baboons." This view outraged the Colonial Office, and left-wing sentiment in Britain, but the government's later (1953) building of a gallows on the golf course might properly be considered by Grogan an endorsement of his position...
...attempting to win the vice-presidential nomination for himself. Their judgment as to his motives: having failed in his tries at the presidential nomination in 1948 and 1952, and despite his foreclosure this week. Stassen wants another shot in 1960. And to take over the Eisenhower wing of the party, he must first get Nixon out of the way. Clearly, the tireless Childe Harold was setting out on a new pilgrimage toward his promised land...
Towards Equality is the culmination of a long-standing and profound philosophic crisis in the Labor Party. For five years the Socialist Union, a group of right-wing Labor intellectuals sometimes jeeringly called "Gaitskell's household troops," have been trying to work out a "modern" interpretation of Socialist dogma to cope with the fact that Socialist theory is out of date and Karl Marx a political handicap. In a recent book called Twentieth Century Socialism, the "household troops" made some startling admissions. Nationalization of industry, the magic tool that was to transform society, had, they conceded, lost its magic...