Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parting was inevitable. Lee Pressman and his Communist line are no longer popular in the C.I.O., where Walter Reuther's right wing is in ascendancy. Sorrowful, aging Phil Murray had found he could no longer straddle the edges of his union's ideological schism. Pressman had seen the writing on the wall. When the C.I.O.'s Executive Board voted last month against supporting Henry Wallace, Pressman knew he was through...
...November election gave the backers of Managerial government and proportional representation a clear cut majority of five men on the City Council. It should have been a simple matter to elect a Mayor by a majority vote. The reformists, all backed by the Cambridge Civic Association, promptly developed a schism and gummed the work. Former Mayor John D. Lynch claims a supernatural mandate from the people. His dearest friend, Hyman Pill, has cast 841 votes for the man with a mandate. Messrs. Deguglielmo, Crane, and Swan, also of the CCA, dislike and distrust Lynch and have split their three votes...
...Schism & Discipline. The first volume of the series,* The Apostolic Fathers, is already out. Ready for distribution this week is the first of the 22 volumes that will be devoted to Saint Augustine. If these first two are typical, the series may reach an audience of unlooked-for size...
Though the details of their lives are largely conjectural, their personalities are sometimes sharply revealed in the letters they wrote. Schism and discipline were the most common problems dealt with in these epistles...
...there is a corrupt buyers' paradise in looted goods. A refrigerator goes for 100 rupees ($30), a radio for 30. Parker "51" fountain pens, which used to sell for 60 rupees, now go for 5. "There is no economic exchange between Pakistan and India. India may survive this schism; Pakistan cannot. Almost its whole middle class, which was Hindu, has fled. The literacy rate, never higher than 9%, is now less than half that. Pakistan's Government is not able to support more refugees. It is trying to shut off the flood. Moslems who hear that Pakistan will...