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Some local genius has invented the slogan, "Me for Ma", which has gained considerable vogue. If the vote, which in the first primary was split among the eight so-called anti-Klan candidates, centres upon "Ma" Ferguson in the second primary, it will be hard to stop her election...
...carried the audience, Moscow and all Russia with him. He might have swept the other party leaders aside and become a dictator-anything. But he remained motionless and gave no sign. That's Trotzky-too loyal, too sincere, to think of self at the risk of causing a split in the party-Trotzky, the man they accused of menshevism, individualism, ambition...
...Seiyuhonto Party and the Seiyukai Party were formerly united under the latter name. The death of Takashi Kara, who fell by the hand of an assassin in 1921, deprived the Seiyukai (Constitutional Society) of its leader, and the Party eventually split owing to internal discord, one part taking the name of Seiyuhonto, meaning "original Constitutional Party...
...Union with the Methodist Church South. This has been agitated ever since 1845 when the Church split because a Baltimore parson refused to free his wife's slaves...
...defeat at the hands of Georgetown compares unfavorably even with the 8 to 4 set-back the Southerners handed to the Crimson. The Bowdoin nine split even with the Bates outfit, losing a well-played game, 3 to 2, and winning a heavy batting orgy, 10 to 9. The last game was with Colby, another slug fest with four runs in the ninth giving the Bowdoin team...