Word: rifted
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...Girondist Party is composed of Socialists and was founded by the Socialist Deputies Alessandri and Bianchi to cooperate with the Fascist Party. Thus has Mussolini triumphed over his late colleagues by causing a rift in their ranks...
...trial balloon rose rapidly through the stagnant political atmosphere of Washington, and at high altitudes struck currents that reveal a danger lest Mr. Harding's 1920 campaign pledges become an election issue in 1924, occasioning a rift in Republican ranks...
...Harvey is through," says Mr. Lawrence. " The name most prominently mentioned as successor is that of Henry Fletcher, Ambassador to Belgium." Lawrence claims that Harvey has disagreed amicably with the President over the World Court. The rift goes back to Harding's campaign, when Harvey disregarded a telegram from Elihu Root, which declared that "it is very unwise to declare that the League is dead." This telegram was sent from Marion, shortly before Harding, then a candidate, made his Des Moines speech against America entering the League...
...country may favor this economy, as was claimed, or it may not. But no matter where it stands, there seems to be a rift in the lute of the administration's peace. Something has gone wrong, certainly, when two such widely divergent policies can be brought to light within the same twenty-four hours. President Harding may have been more strongly affected than he know by the sight of the coffins on the pier; or the Senate may have suddenly become over-enthusiastic in its efforts. Whatever it was, administrative co-ordination apparently does not work at long-distance range...
...course abolition of national prohibition by repeal of the amendment is out of the question. Even its enforcement has already been tried and disapproved of by the people generally, such a repeal would create a dangerous rift in the popular respect for organic law. The Constitution of the United States, our national rock of strength, would sink in popular esteem to the comparatively fallible level of certain state constitutions and ordinary statutory laws. Besides this it would cost endless time and discussion on the part of Congress, State Legislatures, and responsible individuals, at a time when all energies should...