Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meeting at Worcester, Mass., the American Antiquarian Society celebrated the acquisition of 3,821 bound volumes, 9,755 pamphlets and 1,137 engravings, broadsides and maps, and also elected Calvin Coolidge to membership in its learned ranks. Other U. S. Presidents who have been members of the Society: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, Rutherford B. Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson...
...speech at the Oakland Civic Centre. She was arrested and tried. It was not claimed that she had ever advocated the overthrow of the U. S. Government, or had incited anyone to violence. None the less she was convicted by a jury (composed half of women) because of her membership in the Communist Labor Party. She was sentenced to from one to 14 years in prison. For five years her friends have supplied money to carry on her legal battle. Last week the Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal. Now she must go to jail unless the Governor pardons...
...meeting, the first of the year, will be open to members of the University. E. E. Long '26, President of the Theatregoers, will introduce the speakers, and explain membership requirements to those interested in joining the club...
...ready market now steers stolen Marmons to dealers in modern antiques. Indeed, the last page of the records of the Milford Society should contain, and obituary notice, not of the horse thief but of the horse, and above the seal of the society should be placed a membership card...
...student in a graduate school or in a professional school of graduate standing shall be eligible for membership in a University team or crew...