Word: membership
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...never had an individual membership; it has always consisted of 48 State leagues, with local chapters, governed throughout by "superintendents," "secretaries," "educational directors" (propagandists). Financed by churches and philanthropists, it spent some 45 millions up to 1919, some 15 millions since, to influence elections and legislation...
...received money at various times from some 200,000 persons. A single contribution has been enough to get oneself listed as a member. Annual dues have not been collected. Only some 25,000 persons contributed last year. The bulk of the money for increasing the membership and influence has been contributed by wealthy members of the Pierre Samuel du Pont, Charles H. Sabin, Haley Fiske type. Until this year, the A. A. P. A. had only one office, in Baltimore. Its founder and guiding spirit, Captain William H. Stayton, was not dependent...
Perhaps Governor Zimmerman's endorsement by the W. C. T. U. and Anti-Saloon League helped ruin him. Wisconsin is an oldtime Wet. Perhaps the Hon. Zimmerman's former membership in the La Follette contingent helped split Candidate Beck's vote. Perhaps the La Follette grasp on Wisconsin is slipping in the second generation. Or, perhaps Nominee Walter Jodok Kohler is a wealthy manufacturer with a real flair for politics, a convincing program...
Since Aug. 1, membership in the mighty Associated Press has been granted to the Newport, Ark. Independent; Yreka, Calif. News; Sanford, Fla. Signal and Times; Sterling, Ill. Daily Gazette; Cherokee, Ia. Daily Times; Grand Haven, Mich. Tribune; Charlottesville, Va. Daily Progress; Two Rivers, Wis. Reporter and Chronicle; Mexico City El Universal Grafico...
...were able guerrillas for Dr. Still. His school has won a constantly harried and guarded reputation. Allopathy has even recognized some of its teachings, as physical therapeutics. Chief cause for the comity (it remains loosely bound) has been osteopathy's sensible chasing of the raggletoggle out of its membership. Osteopathic schools from Kirksville to Boston now require four years of medical training. Courses are identically those of regular schools. However, instead of Materia Medica, one studies Principles and Practice of Osteopathy...