Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...affairs. Although some employers still fight them ("Any employer who fights the growth and functioning of a bona fide unionism, either in his own company or elsewhere, is a saboteur of American business enterprise . . . more subversive than any red"), business cannot be blamed for labor's danger; the split has come from within labor's ranks. Why, then, is labor fighting? Mr. Harris ticks off as true or false the explanations that are usually offered...
Industrial v. Craft? No. A. F. of L has 29 semi-industrial unions and 19 trade unions. C. I. O. has six semi-industrial and four trade unions. The jurisdictional fight that brought about the split has become meaningless...
Politics? Yes and No. C. I. O. chieftains have plugged harder for "planning" than A. F. of L. cautionocrats; Labor's Non-Partisan League and John L. Lewis' third-party maneuvers have widened labor's split...
...Theatre Guild of Southern California. Founded by onetime Hollywood Director Dudley Murphy and Cinemactor Alan Mowbray, the Guild was set up as a permanent theatrical company, proposed to present Hollywood talent in plays both old & new. A snarl in Guild plans occurred last week when Co-Founder Murphy split with Partner Mowbray, prepared to start a group of his own. Also disturbing to the Guild was a request from the Theatre Guild in Manhattan that the California outfit change its name to prevent confusion...
...Double, or split personality, such as Raskolnikov of Crime and Punishment, "thirsts for power and is powerless, he desires to torture and to be tortured, to debase himself and to debase others, to be proud and to humble himself." Dominance of one trait characterizes the Meek (quixotic Prince Myshkin of The Idiot}, as also the Self-Willed (the murderer Verkhovenski in The Possessed...