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Word: membership (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech in behalf of one John McHugh, I. W. W. member. At her trial, Miss Whitney admitted having joined the Communist party. True, she had never been accused of hurling bombs, preaching revolutions or even damaging machinery (sabotage), but California had, still has, a criminal syndicalism act by which membership alone in certain proscribed organizations is in itself considered worthy of a jail sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Unthinkable | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...translation of the New Testament into Albanian, and that he is one of those few who have striven to carry the fruits of a new continent to the old Mediterranean. No less an infamous graduate of Harvard is John Silas Reed '10. He has been officially read out of membership in his class at Harvard, but under the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow, beside the gray stone tombs of Lenin and the leaders of the 1917 Revolution, there is a stone a little higher than any but Lenin's, which records the part played by this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INFAMOUS SONS OF HARVARD | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...Sangsallakapet is composed of men in all walks of life and trade. Honesty and a good voice are the sole requirements for membership. Its soloists are Gustaf Rodin, tenor, onetime of the Stockholm Royal Opera now of the Berlin Opera; John Johanson, baritone; Johan Friberg, tenor and Joel Berglund, baritone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swedish Chorus | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

Third--That all the four universities concerned may choose representatives only from actual students now in resi- dence and' on the college books of membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Challenge Inaugurating English-American Track Series Issued in 1899--Amateur Standing Strongly Emphasized | 6/7/1927 | See Source »

...performs miracles of feeding, healing, etc. He conducts six short Sunday services, preaching no sermons, at early and late hours so that his people may be out of doors on their holy day. He holds confessional, informally, in his study. His annual report deals not with attendances, collections or membership rolls, but with community improvements or needs which are no more churchly than secular since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heresy | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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