Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Railway Men, to which the strikers belong, declared the strike to be illegal, in a manifesto reported as follows: "The people responsible for calling the strike have made a colossal blunder in thinking than an irresponsible small section of the Union can dictate the policy of the Union. Our membership has been so schooled into discipline that for any small section of unauthorized people to attempt to undermine constitutional government by such methods can only have one result, and sooner or later the members who are being badly misled will have to realize it. For any small section to think...
...opening meeting of the House of Delegates, Dr. Olin West, Secretary of the Association, pointed out that there are now more than 90,000 physicians holding membership in the A. M. A., out of a total of 145,000 physicians...
...advocated freedom for individual initiative and a halt in governmental control of business; deplored "dishonesty in high places"; defended the Supreme Court; condemned unnecessary taxation; favored the compilation and distribution of current trade information; declared tor complete freedom in making and maintaining voluntary employment agreements, without respect to compulsory membership or nonmembership in any organization; urged fair treatment for the railways and continuance of the Transportation Act; stood for the admission of immigrants economically needed, subject to the highest selective tests; supported the World Court idea; frowned upon any change in the present tariff; endorsed the development...
William R. Hearst acquired his 24th newspaper?or, counting his Sunday editions, his 39th. He bought the San Antonio Light, his second newspaper in Texas, his 15th newspaper to have membership in the Associated Press. The reported price was $600,000. There are now ten states in which he owns two or more newspapers. His web is spreading...
...size of the Student Council will be reduced considerably next year. Formerly there were 35 members, but be- cause such a large number made the body unwieldly, it was decoded to change the membership to, 15, of whom ten are to be Seniors and five Juniors. Next year, those who have been elected by popular vote will chose the five other members, three from the class of 1925, and two from the class...