Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips Brooks House, however, will continue its policy of granting freely the use of its rooms, financial aid, and advice to any student religious group which may desire such assistance. But membership in the Cabinet will be restricted to the actual leaders of Brooks House activities...
...Manhattan, a Commonwealth Opera Association met to promote popular-priced performances through dollar membership subscriptions. Music in Manhattan now, complained Charles Edward Russell of the Association's advisory board, is "standardized, systematized, somewhat trustified and the exclusive possession of the economically fortunate...
...Junto was the ancestor of the Useful Knowledge group, each one of the present society's 436 members may proudly and properly trace his philosophical descent from the beginning of U. S. wisdom. Simple indeed were the questions propounded to the Junto's applicants for membership. The first was typical of candor in the City of Brotherly Love: Have you any particular disrespect to any present members? Do you sincerely believe that you love mankind in general? Do you love truth for truth's sake...
...National Association of Dyers and Cleaners of the U. S. & Canada. To them spoke Frank A. Weller, Sharon. Pa., president of the association. Irate, President Weller talked chiefly of racketeers, recommended that the association go on record as being "unalterably opposed" to racketeering (see Letters), and refuse association membership to any dyer and cleaner known to have racketeering connections. Dyers and cleaners feel that unjust, unfavorable comment on racketeers has gravely injured the dyeing and cleaning industry...
...Chicago Master Cleaners' and Dyers' Association had acquired almost a monopoly in Chicago dyeing and cleaning. Members paid a $500 initiation fee and put up a $5,000 bond as a "guarantee of good faith." Bombing, slugging, sabotage, strike-fomenting and other standard methods were used to secure membership; eventually 92 members were lined up. They paid the association a general levy of 2% of gross business. There was also a subordinate organization comprising some 10,000 "little fellows"?i.e., the small neighborhood dyers and cleaners to whom the general public brought its suits, dresses...