Word: membered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dorothy Steeves is a member of British Columbia's Provincial Legislature. One day last week she went to bat. She never got to first base, for before she uttered a word, she had four strikes against her: she was a woman, a Socialist, a foreigner by birth, an empire-hater by conviction. "Enemies of peace," she cried, "are not all in Germany or Russia. They are right here. They are those who refuse to relinquish vested interests. . . . That word empire is connected with a history of horror and slaughter. I hope to see it disappear from our vocabulary...
...Steeves's words were greeted with howls of "Shame! Shame!" Up rose B. C.'s Premier Thomas D. Pattullo to chide her-and incidentally to prove that antitotalitarian nations must adopt semi-totalitarian methods to achieve their ends: "I am sorry at the honorable lady member's attitude, and appeal that no other member of this House give similar utterances. It is fortunate she is living in a country where tolerance is enjoyed. I doubt if she would be allowed such latitude in her native Holland. If such words are again uttered, I shall have to advise...
...denying the interpretation of an Administration victory, Dean Ferguson hit at a Boston newspaper account of the meeting and at the "apparent breach of confidence" by an unknown Faculty member who related the proceedings of a "closed" meeting to the paper...
...Boston newspaper coverage follows: "The Administration regrets the apparent breach of confidence which has resulted in the publication of what purports to be an interpretation as well as a record of the action taken by the Faculty yesterday." Information for the unauthorized story obviously came from a Faculty member, since outsiders are barred from the meeting...
Thomas Dorgan, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and vociferous critic of Communists, said last night that he supported the University's action and promised he would get "brother Browder a good passport to take him to the University of Moscow where he belongs...