Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Institute progressed by means of lectures to the assembled membership, debates before the house and discussion at smaller "round tables" led by experts. Facts and feelings, panoramas and programs, platitudes, witticisms, sound sense and bombast filled the air as they were to fill it for a month. The leading guests were mostly foreigners, the leading topics mostly international, including...
...Union membership, instead of being a bar to church membership, stabilizes the laborer and increases the chances that he will participate in community organizations, the church included...
Some 200 onetime "roses of no man's land"* bloomed again in Denver last week at the annual convention of the Women's Overseas Service League. As the name indicates, the membership of the league is recruited from U. S. women who saw overseas service during the World War. Some were nurses, some canteen workers, some interpreters. All, as Reporter Helen Strauss of the Denver Post put it, had "fearlessly followed their sweethearts and brothers into the War zones . . . ." Of the 200 delegates, 54 were presidents of various service league units...
...each year, their best work in painting, in sculpture, in architectural or landscape design, to compete for four Prix de Rome scholarships. Each of the.four winners receives $1,250 cash yearly for three years, plus lodging and studio at the American Academy in Rome for three years, plus life membership in the Grand Central Galleries, Manhattan...
Bible Students' Association took form. His followers were called "Russellites." Since his death in 1916, when Joseph Frederick Rutherford took charge, they denominate themselves Bible Students. Their membership they claim is in the millions; they have tens of thousands of local associations, called "ecclesias" and ruled by "elders" and "deacons"; publications are in 37 languages. They have no paid ministers. Workers receive bare expenses. Excess money gathered from believers go to further their spread of "Pastor" Russell's, now Judge Rutherford's, ideas.* Those ideas are that the Bible, the Prophets and Revelations especially, forecast and prefix...