Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the HYRC's unique method of stuffing the membership ledger instead of the ballot box has assumed quite considerable proportions. All told, over two hundred and forty members have been rushed into the breaches, held open respectively by Hodel and ex-president Thomson, and by the disgruntled editor of the Times-Republican, Bill Smith...
...this nefarious business is nothing new. In fact, there's a strong precedent for ledger-stuffing. Just two years ago, for instance, the fight was between Thomson and John Eldridge. By the time-honored traditional means, Thomson saved the day for his side, recruiting even apolitical persons and Democrats--proof of his high-minded, unprejudiced criteria...
...presidents, or perhaps as many as there are powerful candidates, would make gangster tactics like those used in 1954 unnecessary. Joseph Studholme, the club's office manager, was about to make an investigation of bogus membership cards distributed by one of the factions in that year's memorable ledger-stuffing maneuver. As he was leaving the club office three days before the election, the candidates for that year attacked him, wrested the sole official membership list from his person, and threatened him with physical violence unless he resigned immediately. Indeed, one may consider this an example of how candidates...
...other side of the ledger, Wilson's adverse comment on the loyalty and capability of the National Guard is not entirely borne out by the facts. Naturally, everyone who joins the National Guard joins because he believes it is the easiest way to meet his military obligation. No one wants to give up six weeks of his year unless he is protected from the longer conventional arm of Uncle Sam. Mr. Wilson stretches words, with some justification, and calls this "draft-dodging...
...protection from further Egyptian commando raids, etc. The State Department, determined that Israel not be rewarded for her attack on Egypt, told the Israeli Foreign Ministry in effect: first things first, i.e., no U.S. commitments until Israel withdraws behind the 1949 armistice lines. On the other side of the ledger, the U.S. Treasury gave no sign of heeding fervent Egyptian requests that it release the $40 million in Egyptian assets frozen by Washington after Egypt seized the canal...