Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...subdivided. The convention of C. I. 0 which he addressed was divided by 1,400 miles and a world of bitterness from the convention of the A. F. of L. in New Orleans. C. I. O. was itself divided in a fight over Communist leaders, A. F.of L. similarly split in a fight over racketeers. And the words were hardly out of Sidney Hillman's mouth when members of Congress, irked by the still unsettled strike at the Vultee Aircraft plant (TIME, Nov. 25), began to denounce "strikes against the Government," to suggest bills to prevent the organizing...
...gold, blue, red & black mosaics, its multi-colored marble panels and the ancient ikons on the reredos above its elaborate stone altar, it was a far cry from Manhattan's John Street Church. That church was the home of the first Methodist Society in the U. S., which split wide open in 1820 and lost many a member because the trustees put a carpet on the pulpit platform...
...Atlantic City, five years ago, insurgents led by John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman defied the hierarchy of the American Federation of Labor. Out of that convention sprang the Congress of Industrial Organizations. This week, gathering in the same Atlantic City hotel, C. I. O. itself threatened to split asunder. The opposing leaders of its wrangling factions: John Lewis and Sidney Hillman...
Yale in the person of Albie Booth put an end to Cantab hopes for an undefeated season in 1931, when the Eli leader split the goal posts for three vital points. The gilded era ended next year with the sale of seats to the general public, which act Yale celebrated by a 19 to 0 shutout...
...Harvard undergraduate who wants a comprehensive knowledge of either medieval or modern European history will find that he has to take an almost impossible number of courses. The reason is that after History 1 the courses nearly all split up into vertical histories of nations. Exceptions are spotted intellectual histories, a course on the Rennaissance and Reformation, and Professor Langer's History of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries...