Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...improve President Hoover's chances of success: i) a turn for the better in the economic tide, with rising prices and increased trade, which would substantially dampen the "protest vote" now rampant; 2) Democratic blunders in managing the next House (see p. 12), followed by another Wet & Dry schism after the Democratic nomination...
...said he had a clear conscience, that he had made much money for the company, that he would not lower his dignity by answering the innuendoes against him. More important, when the meeting broke up, Hudson's Bay Co. seemed likely to suffer a great physical schism...
...Fort Peck Reservation at La Plata, Mont. Before that he was working for telephone and electric light concerns on the Pacific Coast. He was ordained in 1911. In seminary, work he is president of the board of trustees of Lane Theological at Cincinnati, and was, before the Princeton schism, a member of Princeton Theological's directorate. He is not to be confused with that much more experienced school man, Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, 64, president of Princeton Theological since 1914, onetime (1915) moderator of his Church...
...capitals of Indiana and Illinois were last week more than 185 miles apart when simultaneously in each city met a rival faction of the United Mine Workers of America. Rarely before has U. S. Labor exhibited such a bitter intra-Union schism. In Indianapolis gathered a thousand "regular" delegates under big, hard-faced John Llewellyn Lewis, U. M. W. international president. At Springfield assembled 455 "rank-and-file" delegates bent on taking possession of U. M. W. and reorganizing...
...political soothsayers to work. Republicans, badly jolted, attempted, in an awkward unconvincing way, to belittle the election's significance, to explain it away as a local prohibition contest unreflective of national sentiment toward the Hoover administration. Democrats in Washington minimized Prohibition, their party's rock of schism, joyfully saw in the election only an uprising against an outworn partisan cry of "Hoover prosperity," symptomatic of a major economic revolt against Republican diddling on the tariff and unemployment. Wets naturally could see nothing but a resounding whack delivered to the 18th Amendment...