Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fresh start for all undergraduates interested in political matters will be inaugurated tonight at 8 o'clock with the first meeting of the Harvard Student Union, in Emerson D. It will be open to all students in the University and membership will automatically be granted to all those who vote to ratify the constitution. The meeting was brought about by an agreement among the several highly-partisan undergraduate political bodies to sink their differences in the interest of greater general effectiveness. The Peace Society led the movement by agreeing to join the Liberal Club and immediately thereafter the Student League...
...members of the Peace Society, the Liberal Club, the N.S.L., and the S.L.I.D., meet this evening in Emerson D to form an omnibus Student Union. The idea is to spread the membership from the present measly 100 all told to the whole body of students, presumably at least a large minority, who take definite interest in politics and political questions. Those who have scorned and scoffed, with some justification, at past manifestations of political activity in Harvard, have now a unique opportunity to enter a political group at its beginning, and mold it along more intelligent lines...
...were elected. They were: President: Lemuel B. Hunter '37, of Wellesley; Vice, President. Frederick P. Glike '37 of Meriden. Conn.; Treasurer, Robert F. Dine '37 of Allston; Secretary, Robert W. Snyder '38 of Easton, Paf; Manager, James L. Morrison '38 of Groton, Conn. Arthur Steinberg '38 was elected to membership in the Sodaltty...
...workers organized in industrial unions like his and amalgamated into something like the American Federation of Labor. MINER LEWIS, HIS HOUSE & OFFICE-He takes his unionism vertically. Less than 15% of the workers in U. S. industry now belong to the A. F. of L., whose total membership is short of 3,500,000. Fundamentally it is an association of craft unions dominated by skilled workers. These fear that their pay differential would decrease if they had to do their wage bargaining along with unskilled workers. Having fought the A. F. of L. Executive Council for two years from within...
...companies, Mexican power companies, does large-scale entertainment on his Anacacho Ranch at Spofford, Tex. Jowled, powerfully-built, 53, he is suspicious of the Press, which he thinks mistreated him in London three years ago (TIME, June 26, 1933). To newshawks last week he drawled: "A Federal Reserve Board membership is not a talkin' job." He is rated a strictly political appointee...