Word: membered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lazy Louts. Committee members protested that the bill had been railroaded through after only seven minutes' discussion and with no hearings at all. Cried Wisconsin's Republican John Byrnes: "This legislation is dishonest ... In ten years, our veterans will be shouldering half the nation's tax burden ... I am unalterably opposed to this bill. It is no hot potato as far as this member is concerned...
Before the week was out, Congress took one step toward restoring legislative calm. The House voted $150,000 to buy new chairs for the House floor. The old wooden seats, explained Capitol Physician George Calver, were so long from front to back that when a member sat back, circulation was cut off at his calves. When he sat forward to ease his legs, he tended to slump down, push his stomach up into his lungs, impairing his digestion and breathing. The new armless models would permit members to recline in healthy, upholstered comfort and, possibly, improve congressional dispositions...
...pyramids work like this: at his first party a new member hands over two dollars, becomes one of many "number 125" at the base of the pyramid. The next night he becomes a "number 11" and must bring two new members, each with two dollars, to keep the organization intact. On each subsequent night, as new members multiply and form pyramids behind them, he is pushed toward the peak of his pyramid, until on the 12th night he becomes a number i and theoretically receives...
According to the Council's new recommendation, club membership lists will be destroyed every June, as they always have been, and no non-executive member of an Annex political club will have her membership recorded permanently...
...Social Affairs Committee operates under a constitution approved by the Student Council and the Council controls is through an ex-officio member sitting in at meetings. It seems impossible that the Committee, with its simple regulatory duties, should need any supervision; but apparently it does. It is up to the Council to secure minimum efficiency in all groups under its wing, and it must do this in spite of the number of such groups. The Council must supervise, even when supervision seems ridiculous...