Word: membered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the House voted to up each member's annual secretarial allowance to $6,500 for three, increase the yearly appropriation for such help from $2,190,000 to $2,847,000. Before thus braving taxpayers, who generally (and unjustly) believe that all Congressional secretaries are loafing relatives, the gentlemen of all parties devoted more prayerful debate to the proposal than they had accorded a $773,420,000 Navy bill...
Bolivian Legation officials in Washington were not guessing but steaming. One indignant member of the Legation rebutted...
...there were 890 adults for each 1,000 youths (16 to 25), but today youth is outnumbered 2,200 to 1,000 and by 1960 it will be outnumbered 3,000 to 1,000. A Commission report* blamed this situation on a decline in "fertility among American women." Commission Member Dorothy Canfield Fisher dissented testily: "Why pick on the women? It takes two for that...
With the help of a maid, widowed Minta Martin keeps house for her son in Baltimore's swank Ambassador Apartments, just a short walk from the Second Presbyterian Church, of which she is an active member. Martin sometimes goes with her to church on Sundays, dodges it when he can. On evenings when they don't go to the movies he likes to sit at home, surrounded by massive furniture and by paintings of landscapes which Minta Martin has dashed off from time to time over the past 40 years. Two years ago Mrs. Martin stopped painting, doesn...
...Bridges case is almost exactly similar, the charge for deportation being based on the fact that he is a member of a party advocating the overthrow of the government of the United States by force and violence...