Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move showed its weakness. The American Council's only two constituent denominations are the Bible Protestants and the Bible Presbyterians-two sects which together have only 125 churches and some 35,000 members. Furthermore, not a single church of 50,000 members or more seems likely to join the American Council as a body. Comparable figures for the Federal Council: 22 denominations with 134,702 churches and 25,075,462 members-more than two-thirds of all U.S. Protestantism...
...challenger now afoot, but even if Joe Louis wins-and the chances, as always, are better that he will than that he won't-it may be Joe's last fight. Recently reclassified 1-A by a Chicago draft board, the Brown Bomber will probably join the Army next month...
...page English-language monthly, was launched to rally a sort of Democratic International with underground contacts in Nazi-occupied countries. It published three French underground leaflets said to have a circulation of 50,000, told an unpublished story of twelve French pilots who were captured while trying to join De Gaulle; two were sentenced to death, ten to forced labor for life. Now printed only in English, Free World plans editions in Chinese, French, Spanish. Editorial board and contributors read like an anti-Fascist Who's Who: Cordell Hull, Nicholas Murray Butler, Dorothy Thompson, Clarence Streit, Eduard Benes...
...present policy of the Student Union (barring sudden changes since we went to press) reads very well. The action program outlined at last night's meeting sounds impressive. A student unfamiliar with the past history of the H.S.U. might be persuaded to join up on this basis. But a student who recalls last winter's "No Wilson Promises" buttons and last spring's peace strike will think twice before choosing the Student Union to express his opposition to fascism, at home and abroad. The line may turn again, suddenly...
...National Defense Mediation Board, all contractual disagreements were ironed out with one exception. The company refused to accept the union's demand for a closed shop, on the grounds that is "the right of the American worker to decide for himself whether he wants to join a union and to remain a member of a union." Here was a stalemate, and there was nothing that the Mediation Board could do about it. On July 26 the CIO stated that further negotiations "would be fruitless"; and, on August 6, it sent a strike notice to the company while at the same...