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Word: membership (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East from eastern Arkansas, set out in 1934 to do something for Southern sharecroppers. What they did, with the help of No. 1 Socialist Norman Thomas, was to organize the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Having bearded many a planter and even bettered matters a little for its poverty-stricken membership, S. T. F. U. in 1937 tried to affiliate with C. I. O. as an autonomous union. Because the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers of America was already in the farm field, S. T. F. U. was required to hook up with that union as a supposedly autonomous division...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Secession | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Speaking on "The Function of Art in a Changing Social Order" before a general membership meeting of the Student Union in the Fogg lecture hall, Feild defined art as skill, based on four essentials: the incentive, or final cause; the image, or formal cause; the materials, or material cause; and the tools, or efficient cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEILD GIVES TALK ON PURPOSE OF FINE ARTS | 3/16/1939 | See Source »

...There has been a deliberate and diabolical scheming . . . for making our union subservient to . . . a partnership between the dictatorship of John L. Lewis and the Communist dictatorship of the proletariat. We must win the rank and file of honest membership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Confusion Confounded | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Whatever effect this had on the honest membership, it achieved a Labor paradox. A so-called C. I. O. audience booed & hissed every mention of the name of John Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Confusion Confounded | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Total membership: 603 men, twelve women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Apron Strings v. Purse Strings | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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