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...Schism has rent the American Armenian Church ever since Archbishop Tourian became its shepherd two years ago. Part of Armenia is a Soviet Republic but all Armenians do not relish U. S. S. R. rule. Especially hostile to the Soviet is Tashnag, an organization dedicated to the restoration of the old Armenian Republic. Archbishop Tourian, 54, only churchman at the Manhattan banquet to Maxim Litvinoff last November, was accused of being proSoviet. He aroused factional wrath last summer, on Armenian Day at the Chicago World's Fair, by declining to make a speech until a pro-Soviet Armenian flag...
Pious Old Paul von Hindenburg grew so troubled by the Nazi v. non-Nazi schism in German Protestantism that Catholic Chancellor Hitler had to call on the Protestant President one day last week and personally assure him that somehow everything would come out all right...
...Lord Hugh: "If a Unitarian may preach under a Bishop's authority, who can reasonably complain about departures from the text of the prayerbook? We shall hardly be able to resist the polemics of the Roman Catholics when they tell us our church is a sect born of schism collapsing in anarchy...
Last April a Democratic group designated by the National Committee met in Chicago to arrange for the June convention. At the meeting Roosevelt men were about evenly arrayed against anti-Roosevelt men. To avert a schism a compromise was effected whereby Kentucky's Senator Barkley, a Roosevelt supporter, was "recommended" to the convention as temporary chairman and keynoter. Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee at Washington headquarters, was "commended" as permanent chairman. A Raskobite, Mr. Shouse has spent the last three years keeping his party alive and active in opposing the Hoover Administration. To him more than...
...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...