Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...membership of the Society, while steadily increasing from less than 2,000 in 1903 to 9,286 in 1928, (excluding membership in the Technology Branch), shows an interesting rise in the last five years, almost doubling in number. Several factors contribute to this growth, one of the chief ones being the remodeling of the old store into the modern place of business in which the Society is now housed. The inclusion of graduate members was also begun during this period. These number 1,366 in the 1928 report...
...this committee were introduced in the Senate. Senator Jones (Dry) of Washington, suggesting the appointment of a Senatorial Committee, Senator Edge (Wet) of New Jersey suggesting the appointment of nine civilians, to be named, after March 4, by Mr. Hoover. Later, Senator Jones agreed with Senator Edge that the membership of the committee should be left to Mr. Hoover's decision, thereby virtually withdrawing the senatorial committee idea...
Rapid increase in Negro churches throughout the north during the last ten years was shown by a bulletin of the Census Bureau last week. The report states that there were 42,585 Negro churches in the U. S. in 1926, with a membership...
...intended that his Methodist societies conflict with the established religion. But established religion had lost its virility to an "age of reason," and Wesley hoped to counter this "deathly decorum" with a revival of mysticism and emotionalism. Throughout England, therefore, he organized societies with the sole condition of membership "a desire to flee from the wrath to come...
...Warburg who organized the International Acceptance Bank in 1921. Born in Hamburg in 1868, Paul M. Warburg entered a Hamburg export house at 18, entered the House of Warburg at 20. Followed experience in English, in French banking houses, a world tour, a return to Hamburg, and, in 1896, membership in the Warburg firm. In 1894 Mr. Warburg had married Nina, daughter of Solomon Loeb of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. In 1902 he came to live in the U. S., became partner in Kuhn-Loeb, in which Brother Felix had been a partner since...