Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radical organizations would have soon died in an ineffective sob. But it just happened that the American Federation of Labor selected Tampa as its 1936 meeting place. And it just happened that at the present time, Labor's conservative William Green would like to salve his radical membership. Upshot was that he and Socialist Norman Thomas went into a huddle and the Mayor of Tampa gave Police Chief Tittsworth "indefinite leave of absence" to "investigate the case." First, six Tampa police-men were suspended. Last week they and two other suspects were indicted for second degree murder for participating...
...that in 1914 his beloved Ethiopia was saved from being dismembered by the Great Powers by the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. After the establishment of the League of Nations, the Emperor, or Prince Tafari as he then was, figured out wisely that if Ethiopia could possibly win membership in the League, she might never need an-other World War to distract the Great Powers from dismembering her. To get into the League, though, was most difficult. Egypt was then and is still barred, for the reason that Britain suspected then and now knows for certain that Egypt, once...
...foreign department that an ex-Catholic who has not communicated for years and who has openly attacked the Church can no longer be described as a Catholic without flat inaccuracy. To be a Catholic, as TIME knows well, is to be a member of the Catholic Church, and this membership is voluntary, not racial, nor an irrevocable product of onetime membership. Hitler is a de facto apostate Catholic, and his status is properly describable only as that, or simply as "ex-Catholic...
...graduate students tried to enroll, only to discover that membership on the team was barred to them. The Freshmen will be able this year as they were last to substitute a day or two of skiing for their regular periods of required exercise. They are also eligible for the Varsity team, unlike most other sports...
Seven science departments lost in membership; they are Biochemistry, Engineering, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Anthropology and Astronomy. Romance Languages, Music, Fine Arts. Literature and German have also lost...