Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Always a timesaver, Speaker Longworth reduced to less than a minute the ceremony of swearing in the whole House membership. Heretofore the oath was administered to groups of 20. This time all members stood together. Each raised his right hand. The Speaker carefully read the oath. A thunderous "I do" rolled solemnly through the chamber as 402 members swore all at once...
Chicago men struck at the Institute by attacking Dr. Schmidt. While Chicago quacks continued unharassed, the Chicago Medical Society expelled Dr. Schmidt from membership. At once, his associate Dr. Yarros resigned; also his colleague, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, Chicago's onetime strident but able health commissioner, now Cook County's coroner...
...Baptists, whose membership verges on 10,000,000 baptized souls, achieved their greatest potency not so much by their religious beliefs alone as by founding countless welfare homes, over 90 colleges and universities. In Russia likewise, Baptists began to administer Baptist welfare, to build Baptist homes...
...American D. S. M. As everyone knows, he is the brother of dynamic Herbert Bayard Swope, ex-executive editor of the (New York) World. Both brothers were born in St. Louis, Gerard slightly more than nine years before Herbert. Gerard is 56; Herbert, 47. Brother Gerard lists membership in ten clubs, Brother Herbert in eight. But they meet at only one, the Lotos...
...prominent during his college years as president of the CRIMSON and chairman of the Student Council Committee on Education. In his Freshman year, he was editorial chairman of the Red Book. Besides belonging to the Dramatic Club and the Debating Union, he was elected to numerous other offices, including membership on the Class Day Committee and the Committee on Freshman Affairs. He graduated in 1926 with a degree magna cum laude...