Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task the organization of a body or committee may be, the amount it will accomplish will be in direct proportion to the quantity of initiative, leadership, and willingness to work exhibited by the members composing the body. Although hampered as had been it predecessors by archaic organization and unwieldy membership, nevertheless last year's Council because of the character of a few of its members, loft behind a series of accomplishments unequalled for years past...
...Shimer 3G., Secretary of the Graduate Schools Society, will preside; and C. T. Leonard 2G, will furnish music. The Graduate Schools Society, has no definite membership; all graduate students of the University are welcome to its functions, which are held frequently throughout the year...
...There are, to be sure, certain associations of journalists. Last year was formed the American Society of Newspaper Editors ... 'to develop a stronger professional esprit de corps, to maintain the dignity and rights of the profession, to consider and perhaps establish ethical standards for professional conduct' . . . with an initial membership of 124 editors-in-chief and executive editors. . . . This group . . . adopted a set of 'Canons of Journalism' prepared by Mr. H. J. Wright, at that time Editor of the New York Globe. Excellent! But-without wishing to prejudge the utility of such a body, the creation of which is surely...
...Under President Harding and President Coolidge, in pursuance of this constructive foreign policy, there has been urged upon the Nation membership in the World Court...
...part at least, this is what surplus is for. Moreover the structure of the Reserve Banks might well suffer, should their dividends be long cut or suspended. Their stock is held by the member banks, state or national. The latter must belong to the system under the law. But membership in the state banks is entirely optional, and many state banks have never seen fit to join the system, thereby decreasing the control and leadership of the system over the country's banking business. If Reserve Stock produced no dividends, state banks would scarcely be inclined to invest...