Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These dividends may be collected at the Coop beginning on Thursday, October 13, on the presentation of last year's membership card...
...convention were wan, tireless President David Lasser. 36, and bespectacled, soft-spoken Secretary-Treasurer Herbert Benjamin. 37. Two-and-a-half years ago Socialist Lasser's original Alliance and Herbert Benjamin's Communist Unemployment Councils submerged their differences, merged with lesser organizations into the present Alliance. The membership (now claimed 400,000. mostly in Eastern, Midwestern and Pacific Coast cities) continually shifts as clients go on & off relief. The leadership is also in constant flux, at the moment includes such active but seldom mentioned figures as John Spain of New Jersey, Lee Morgan of Ohio, Al Brockway...
...Rules Committee which must otherwise be taken from him as an elected Republican. To oust him from that post was, in fact, the Purge's chief aim in his case. For the Rules Committee, with power of life & death over much legislation (unless by petition the House membership calls bills out of it to the floor), is now composed of ten Democrats, four Republicans. Of the Democrats, six were non-New Dealers until the defeat of Representative Driver of Arkansas and now of New York's O'Connor. With Republican aid the six non-New Dealers have...
...view of how it might be turned to the advantage of the League. In Geneva, members of the British delegation and others rumored that at Godesberg last week (see p. 16), Mr. Chamberlain was urging that any European settlement reached with Herr Hitler be "crowned" by having Germany resume membership in a League of Nations now somewhat "revised." Such revision the Scandinavian states launched by announcing that they no longer regarded League members as bound "automatically" to join in applying sanctions to an aggressor. Last week the British delegate, Mr. Richard Austen Butler, served formal notice that His Majesty...
...aboard this bandwagon before the League Assembly adjourned, typical Geneva statesmen foresaw two important developments: 1) the League will not by "automatic" or other means impose the sanctions against Japan which China demanded fortnight ago; 2) Germany may possibly return, in case war is averted now, to ultimate League membership...