Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Norris explained: the Lobby Committee had developed the fact that Senator Bingham had hired Charles L. Eyanson, had put him on the Senate pay roll (TIME, Oct. 7). Subsequently Senator Bingham in "discourteous language" on the Senate floor had assailed the Lobby Committee's membership. Therefore, he, Senator Norris, offered the following resolution...
...most important units must he omitted. The first of them is Russia. Five-sixths of the population of that Soviet Union live west of the Ural Mountains, commonly considered the boundary between Europe and Asia. But Russia has put out creepers across Asia which are not compatible with membership in a European federation. To be sure, the Soviet Union is the strongest believer on the globe in international unification. The Russian idea, however, is not at all a world federation, but a world Soviet which, if the present government of Russia is an example, means a world dictatorship...
...Lobby Committee: "This transaction was beneath the dignity of the Senate and would tend to shake the confidence of the American people in the integrity of legislation." Democratic Senator Dill of Washington suggested that the Senate Finance Committee should "purge itself" by removing Senator Bingham from its membership. Cried Democratic Senator George of Georgia: "The shadow of the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association is across every schedule and every paragraph of this pending tariff bill. That shadow becomes darker and longer as time goes on. ... A badge of dishonor and shame...
Eight additional students were chosen to the membership of the University Squad, from which the three University Debating teams will be selected. The additional men are W. E. Esber '31, F. C. Fiechter, Jr. '32, D. I. Cooke, Jr. '31, W. S. Baskerville '32, R. M. Alt '32, J. E. Willard '30, A. A. Windecker, Jr. '32, and P. H. Cohen...
...meeting held at Columbia University on January 30 and 31 of this year, will be sponsored by the Calvert Round Table of Boston, a group of approximately 100 representative laymen of different religious beliefs. The seminar to be held at Harvard is the first activity of the organization, whose membership list is made up of individuals outstanding in many lines of endeavor in Boston and vicinity. No one active in political life or holding elected public office is eligible to the organization...