Athanathius posts:
But I think that the real reason that Rutherford removed the 4 directors was because they were questioning him about his and Van Amburg's misuse of Watch Tower funds. Do you know any more about this?
RoRo replies:
I'm not sure of the misappropiation of the funds. We do know that one of the main reasons for the falling out was due to Rutherford's releasing of the "The Finished Mystery." Such a huge project was done behind the backs of the board of directors and editorial committee. It was the release of the book that started the schism.
You guys need to keep the timeline in mind while conjecturing.
JFR was elected President in January, and by June the battle was on with the 4 soon-to-be ex-Directors. That didn't leave sufficient time for JFR and WEVA to be involved in any money scandals.
Hell, JFR even had FM published by soliciting a BS from Colorado to foot the initial bills.
AND, speaking of FM, it did NOT cause the schism.
Hell, it was kept secret from the 4 Directors, who didn't even know about it until after JFR had announced they had be removed as Directors.
When JFR was elected President in January, the shareholders gave him full authority to run the Society, which was exactly what he did. What everyone always "forgets" to mention is that the other two Officer-Directors elected at the Annual Meeting, who worked with JFR during these first few months, got along fine with him at that time.
It was the 4 non-officer's, who did not have any day-to-day executional say over the Society's activites that were griping. This occurred almost as soon as the other 3 Directors took power. After the June Board meeting, the 4 began plotting a power coupe, since they held the majority vote on the Board. Well, 'ol JFR outsmarted them. When the July meeting rolled around, the first thing JFR did was to use the "legal technicality" to kick their asses off the Board.
You can scream "foul" all you want, but JFR simply screwed them before they had a chance to screw the 3 Officer-Directors.