Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Remark: Whereas 3,500,000 Germans voted the Communist ticket at the recent German Election (TIME, May 28), the total membership of the Communist Party in Russia is slightly more than...
...Arbor is a relatively unimportant road, 300 miles long, and membership on its directorate is not very significant, although William Henry Williams is its chairman, as he is chairman of the Wabash...
Should a reapportionment of seats be made on the basis of the 1920 census without increasing the House membership above its present, cumbersome 435, the following States would lose seats: Missouri, 2; Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, Mississippi, Nebraska, one each. That is the 2.75% error. Should the estimated census of 1930 be used, 23 seats would be involved, or 5.3% of 435. Losses then would be: Missouri, 3; Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, two each; Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, one each...
...just as soon as our Phi Beta Kappa candidates were taking hope that after all there might be something more attendant upon membership in that exclusive society than the mere privilege of dangling another gold charm on the watch chain, along comes Mr. T. W. Slocum. New York financier...
...Slocum admires the study required to earn membership in the society, but maintains that it does not promise leadership in business. This is no doubt very fine. An exceptional mind is not necessary to high executive positions. The point of the whole controversy seems to be that unusual mental power is one though only one of several factors of primary importance in business success. Personality and the ability to win over the confidence of others are equally essential but nevertheless the Phi Beta Kappa man has proven that he has one at least of these necessary qualifications. The Daily Princetonian