Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eager was President Hoover to push ahead with Farm Relief, to catch this year's harvest at the crest, that last week, before its membership was completed, he ordered his new Farm Board to assemble in Washington for its initial meeting July 15. Five men had accepted service on this nine-man board: Alexander H. Legge, Chairman; James Clifton Stone, Vice-Chairman; Carl Williams, C. B. Denman, Charles C. Teague. Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, the sixth member ex officio, was despatched by the President to the Mid-West, there to search out likely candidates for the other three places...
Common knowledge is Egypt's long-standing wish to have her status as an independent kingdom confirmed by membership in the League. Equally aware, however, is the League of Great Britain's strong opposition to this step, for Egypt, which Britain relinquished as a Protectorate in 1922 but which she still maintains the right to control because of the Suez Canal, is the chief route to India, vital artery of British trade...
Insignia of Aviation Country Clubs is a purple plane surrounded by purple initials ACC, superposed on a pair of gold wings. The pin worn on lapel or dress will indicate membership in what present members intend to be the most exclusive social club...
...first publication to offer perpetual subscriptions must be either withdrawn or considerably limited by qualifications. Since 1920 or earlier, the New England Historic Genealogical Society has offered a perpetual subscription to its quarterly magazine, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, in connection with a perpetual membership in the Society, for $300. More recently, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society has offered perpetual subscriptions to its quarterly magazine with or without perpetual membership in the Society...
...Hoover with the Export Debenture Plan in the Farm Bill. It took its name from the support it gave last week to a Borah resolution to instruct the Finance Committee to confine tariff revision to the farm schedule. Last week it held informal meetings, laid plans, apportioned among its membership the special study of different schedules for technical contests on the Senate bloc, prepared to scatter through the land to stump against the general revisionists of the Finance Committee...