Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some 35,000 Rural Free Delivery routes throughout the land have gone a dime each from country mailmen. Each 10? contribution rolled into Washington to make up a total of $3,500. With this fund a shiny seven-passenger automobile was purchased by the Rural Letter Carriers' Association (membership: 43,700) and rolled to the Post Office Department where it was presented as a farewell gift to Harry H. Billany as he retired as Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, "chief" of the country mailmen. Ned H. Goodell, the association's president, presented the car, told Mr. Billany: "You have...
Robert Barry, Washington correspondent of the New York Evening World, last week made the following analysis of the Republican membership of the Finance Committee in the torthcoming tariff fight...
...control from engineering to industrial leaders. Organized as the American Standard Engineering Standards Committee in 1917 by the American Societies of Civil Engineers, of Mechanical Engineers, American Institutes of Electrical Engineers, of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers and American Society for Testing Materials, the Committee in 1919 expanded its membership to include U. S. Departments of War, Navy and Commerce. More members were added until in 1928 there were 37 member bodies. In March the American Home Economics Society was admitted to membership...
Dewey. "Greatest U. S. philosopher," exponent of what he calls "empirical naturalism or naturalistic empiricism," Columbia University's Professor John Dewey was voted a life membership in the association, to be conferred on the occasion of his 70th birthday...
...young people's wing of the Protestant churches is the interdenominational International Society of Christian Endeavor; membership, circa four millions. Especially active in it are Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Disciples. Approximately half of the young Baptists belong to it, the other half are members of the Baptist Young People's Union. Young Lutherans have their own Luther League, their Walther League. Similarly the Methodists formed their own Epworth League a few years after the founding (1881) of Christian Endeavor...