Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Curry, one of the leaders of the splinter group which split off from the Young Democrats last October, yesterday told the CRIMSON he did not think the Democrats were serious about going through with the suit. He said he was sure the club had finished "blowing off steam" about what he termed that "rather old, stale joke." Curry added that "those irresponsible fools couldn't possibly win a civil suit...
...expense for the club. Ordinarily only claims of $50 or less can be considered in this court, but the Democrats feel they may be able to file three claims for $19 apiece since Curry drew three checks of that size for an add in the CRIMSON, beer, and a splinter group publication
Possible Coalition. Yoshida boasts that his party will win a greater majority in the new elections than they got in October. But with Hatoyama and his dissident Liberals running on a splinter ticket, Yoshida may get beaten. The opposition is scattered, but might unite in a coalition headed by Hatoyama or by one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, the Progressive Party leader, who, as Foreign Minister, signed Japan's surrender aboard the Missouri, and was convicted as a war criminal...
Stewart said that the burglars took five pictures and a hammer from the Advocate. With the hammer they went up a fight in the 40 Bow St. building to splinter the door of the Bat Club...
...deeply impressed by Japan's relatively mature parliamentary system," Reisehauer said. Noting that election laws foster splinter parties such as exist in Italy and France, he said that signs point to the development of a virtual two-party system--one conservative, one socialist...