Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grand Trunk is James W. Blake, benign-looking, round-faced man who wears eyeglasses. His Order of the Elephants, which he founded, tries to spread happiness among business men. The only requirement for membership is to keep smiling. Lodges are called "tusks...
...party. Where any rising tide of black Republican votes may occur, white concern for the all-white ticket is calculated to insure the Democrats against the dangers of sloth, carelessness, disaffection among themselves. The new Texas method of disfranchising Negroes by simple race discrimination in the party membership supersedes early, cruder. methods. Texas used to bar Negroes from the polls by a State law. But Negroes had this law declared unconstitutional. Other methods have been...
...conduct inconsistent with just and equitable practices of trade," Edwin H. Stern, partner in the brokerage firm of E. H. Stern & Co., was expelled from membership in the New York Stock Exchange, last week. He had made a personal profit of $1,000 in a complicated floor deal, while acting as a specialist in Manhattan Shirt stock. In 1910, Mr. Stern paid some $75,000 for his Stock Exchange seat. Now, when his seat is sold, he will receive a sum in the neighborhood...
...Order of the Golden Militia (also called the Golden Spur) limited to a world membership of 100 knights. In the U. S. no holder; in Great Britain the Marquess of Bute, lord of more than 117,000 acres...
During the Council debate French Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour scathingly declared that the shipment was sufficiently "practical" to equip 90 companies of machine gunners. In fine, the Council was too water-hearted to denounce Italy for treaty breaking, lest Signor Mussolini should huffily withdraw his Great Power from membership in the League. General Tanczos, representing unrepentant Hungary, last week, said: "We are so well content that there is really nothing...