Word: membership
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Education Association whose membership consists of about 150,000 school superintendents and teachers, has made a curious recommendation concerning high school curricula. According to the report in "Time", the society desires a closer alliance of secondary school subjects with those of the grammar chool. As a reason for this liaison, the argument is urged that since only a small proportion of the students intend entering college, their needs should not dominate the courses given. In the theory of the immortal average, the greatest good of the greatest number, this attitude finds its justification...
Massachusetts three years ago claimed 100,000 members, but perhaps had no more than 7,000. The present estimate of its membership is 1,500. Its political influence is negligible...
...York had 200,000 members in 1923, and has now fewer than 100,000. A state law was passed to make it reveal its membership, but it evaded it by incorporating as a benevolent society. Its strongholds are on Long Island and in the southern and extreme western counties of the state. Its influence is merely local...
Kansas had a peak membership of 150,000 in 1924. Its leaders have made it conservative, supporting law enforcement and no violence. It still seems fairly healthy in this state...
Louisiana membership may once have been 50,000. Last year a law was passed requiring public registration of names of members, and only a few hundred names were filed. Its political influence, never great, has waned, and the number of "tips" to prohibition officers has greatly fallen...