Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Harold Pritchett, a Canadian, aggressive left-winger and Northwest ally of Harry Bridges. So fierce were the jurisdictional fights between these two unions that in one three-month period 900 men went to the hospitals as a result of inter-union battles. Presently the C. I. O. union split again. An opposition group, damning Pritchett as a Communist, failed to oust him as president last October. Harold Pritchett meanwhile was isolated in a war-tightened British Columbia, refused entry into the U. S., barely keeping in touch with his I. W. A. followers...
...Union's entries in the 50 and 100 will come from a group consisting of Frannie Powers, Lennio Stoweil, Ed McNitt, and Dave Stearns. The grads will counter with Charley Hutter, Don Barker, Rick Cutler, and George Scott. The total points involved in these two races will probably be split quite evenly, but the Varsity has a destined advantage in the final relay. There will not be a 440, so Bus Curwon could team up with Powers, Stowell, and a fourth man to form a relay quartet which the Alumni would have a hard time equaling...
...lonely radio amateur got through with some word. The nerves of civilization quietly parted. Wide clean streets became tangles of wires. Forty-year-old trees, planted and cared for as trees are cared for only in the plain country, groaned and creaked all through the night, booming as they split open...
...Bologna, fat, flush Tenor Beniamino Gigli found he had won the weekly Italian national lottery. He promptly split the 11,000 lire ($555.50) prize among a friend and the three waiters whose shield numbers he had played...
...shoulders rested a double responsibility. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins vaguely denied a circumstantial report by the New York Times that she had finally pinned on her hat and resigned. But Sidney Hillman had already overshadowed her. As Labor Man on the National Defense Advisory Commission, the split between A. F. of L. and C. I. 0. was his burden. As a leader of C. I. O. the split within that body was his burden...