Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Authority & the Inner Light. For most modern Quakers, the schism's cause was as archaic as broad-brimmed hats and grey bonnets. But in the early 19th Century, winds of doctrine blew hot and strong upon the Society of Friends...
...meeting a Clerk is appointed to gather the "sense of the meeting" on a given subject, reduce it to a minute for the meeting's approval. Quakers find the method makes up in unity for what it loses in dispatch. Its one big failure: the Hicksite-Orth-dox schism...
John Lewis mocked him. Hillman had joined with Lewis in 1936 in the rebel C.I.O. movement. When Hillman suggested later that the schism from A.F.L. might be healed, Lewis thundered: "And now comes the piercing wail and the laments of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers," and fumingly invited Hillman to get out of C.I.O. But in the end it was Lewis...
...when the great schism came, and Earl Browder fell, Abraham Heller resigned from the Party, cut off his financial support. While Browder and Heller were getting together on schemes for a new Soviet-U.S. publishing venture, the dead-broke Daily Worker began beating its drums for new contributors...
Last week TIME'S London Bureau cabled: "Britons are asking about and talking about war in a dreadfully matter-of-fact way-two years, five years, what will you bet?" On the Continent the schism between Russia and the West was forcing the great mass of moderate men into two opposing camps, with the extremists in both getting ready for "when war comes." As Jimmy Byrnes and Arthur Vandenberg spoke of a stronger U.S. foreign policy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), war talk was also heard...