Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leader Watson's troubles were not confined to the Senate, where only a minority seemed willing to follow him. In Indianapolis last week he was made a defendant in a $50,000 damage suit growing out of his alleged membership in the Ku Klux Klan...
...William M. Rogers, Indiana Klansman, had sworn before a Senate committee that upon a trip to Washington in 1926 he had applied to Senator Watson for assistance in getting a Government job, that Senator Watson had proudly exhibited a Klan imperial passport, had claimed high membership in the order...
...Blind baggage" is unpaid-for railway travel, usually under freight cars. Members of the brotherhood must pay no railway fare during the first year of their membership, must have no regular abode, must work with their hands (no "white collar" jobs...
...medium of an illegal Congress. Long-wrangled, long-overdue Reapportionment, approved last fortnight (TIME, June 10) by the Senate, was provided for last week by the House when it passed a combined Census & Reapportionment Bill. The House measure duplicated the essentials of the Senate bill in providing that membership of the House shall be retained at 435, and that, after the taking of the census, State representations in the House shall be automatically reapportioned according to 1930 population figures by the executive branch of the Government...
...great Renaissance hall of the College Mazarin to assert their own dignity and listen to the learned speeches of their colleagues. Each member owns an elaborate Napoleonic costume, of tail coat, knee breeches, white-plumed cocked hat and sword. But despite all the formalities and trappings of membership, Institut de France no longer receives the respect from French artists which its age* and dignity warrant. It is frequently hinted that many members of the Institut are elected for political reasons; some of France's greatest men have never been chosen...