Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortunately CIO and AFL political action programs will work arm-in-arm in '48. But if the PCA-ADA division ever becomes institutionalized in the two sections of labor, a schism reaching into '50 and '52 will undoubtedly occur. Now is the time to search with determination for common ground. Philip Murray has demonstrated in the sessions at the Bradford this week that great leadership can find ways to unite divergent factions in a crucial hour. The Henry Wallaces and Chester Bowleses do not deserve a look until they too demonstrate this statesmanlike faculty...
...forum, "World Government-Is the United Nations Too Slow?" heard Clark Eichelberger, director of the American Association for the United Nations, answer his charges. Eichelberger said that the creation of such a world union would only increase the schism existing between the western powers and Russia...
Thanks for digging your fingernails into the rocky Toynbee (TIME, March 17]. Slumbering America needs the challenge of dangling cliffs. What is to be the fate of a civilization which doesn't acknowledge a "schism in the soul?" Historian Toynbee has shown us that our problem is basically theological...
...America and settled at Germantown. For a time, they found tolerance and peace. By 1776 the Pennsylvania Mennonites numbered nearly 7,500; today there are approximately 200,000 on the North American continent. They too, "plain people" as they call themselves, have not escaped the disease of sectarianism and schism. U.S. Mennonites are currently divided into 16 groups, including the black-clothed, buttonless, bearded Amish of southeastern Pennsylvania. Some of them still practice such ancient customs as the "holy kiss" (see cut). All of them, however, remain plain and pacifist...
...into one church; in 1940 the Evangelical Synod of North America and the Reformed Church officially united. In 1942 the American and United Lutheran churches recognized a "fellowship of pulpit and altar," stopped just short of organic union. Recently the U.S. Quakers healed their 119-year-old Hicksite-Orthodox schism (TIME, Nov. 18). Negotiations are currently under way between Northern and Southern Presbyterians...