Word: schism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scar. The merger will heal a schism dating back to 1936, when John L. Lewis provoked the A.F.L.'s expulsion of his C.I.O. The A.F.L.'s old craft unions, e.g., carpenters, teamsters, plumbers, had signally failed to organize workers in mass-production industries, steel, autos, rubber, etc. As chief of the nation's largest industrial union, the United Mine Workers, John L. was confident that he could organize the mass-production industries-and he made a spectacularly successful start. The C.I.O. spread strife and union buttons across the land with sit-down strikes and picket-line battles...
...really think." declared jubilant George Meany. "that it's going to be the beginning of a better day for the workers of America." Not a word came from the unaffiliated United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis, now 75, who started the great schism to begin with...
...backstage fight at the plucky little New York City Opera burst into full view last week. A policy schism has long troubled the 12-year-old company. Was it to be a "little Met" and give second-class performances of the big company's repertory, or was it to seek out scores that the Metropolitan Opera would not produce and do them well? Manhattan Maecenas Lincoln Kirstein held the second view and, as managing director of the entire New York City Center (opera, ballet, theater), tried to make it work. Through a $200,000 Rockefeller grant, he helped commission...
...conference, however, the E.C.A.C. offered a plan containing liberalizing features that appealed to the Big Ten and received large support from the delegates present. Observers believe now that a compromise plan will be worked out to prevent any serious schism in the N.C.A.A...
...regional members of the National Party Council, and 34 out of 42 new members at large, are supporters of Fanfani's Democratic Initiative. These victories might have alarmed the party's conservative old guard, and even brought on the first tremors of a schism, if Fanfani had made any importunate move to exploit his strength...