Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge sent to the Senate the nomination of Charles H. March of Litchfield, Minn., for membership on the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. March was potently pro-Coolidge in the Minnesota pre-convention campaign...
...Washington, D. C, is the Congressional Club, composed of women of the Congressional set. Wives of Congressmen have always been ipso facto eligible for membership, have even been urged to join when they showed lack of initiative. But last week, Mrs. Albert H. Vestal, wife of the Indiana Representative, offered an amendment to the club's constitution which, if passed at a general meeting on Feb. 6, will make it possible for the club's members to thwart the election of women whose right to belong has hitherto been unquestioned. The amendment provides that the candidate must...
Concerts at the Harvard Clubs of Portland, New York, and Boston are among the eight engagements included in the spring schedule of the University instrumental Clubs, announced last night by R. S. Holden '29, president of the organization. Trials for membership in the clubs will begin on February 4, it was also announced...
However, last week the House passed the Fenn Bill which makes it reasonably certain that after 1930 the membership of the House will be reapportioned every decade among the various States according to population and therefore according to the Constitution...
...imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies"; but the Locarno Pact (1925), refers to "the peoples upon whom fell the scourge of the war 1914-1918." Thus Germany has progressed officially, from the status of a culprit self-confessed and solely guilty, to that of membership in a community of pious sufferers. Needless to recall, the hypothesis of sole guilt is bindingly included in an article (No. 231) of the Versailles Treaty, while the quotation from the Locarno Pact is taken from its mere preamble and is therefore not binding?though enormously significant...