Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society plans to make three productions of one act plays. The major productions will be presentations of "Beyond The Horizon" by Eugene O'Neil, "Land's End", by F. L. Lucas, and "Days To Come," by Lilian Hellman. Membership is open to students...
...case of Joseph Strecker, Austrian born and a confessed onetime Communist. His contention that he is entitled to citizenship since Communist Party membership does not imply advocacy of violent tactics, accepted by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, has been appealed to the Supreme Court...
...secretary, started Consumers Union of United States, Inc., aided by other C. R. experts who had been fired or quit. Since May 1936, when C. U. published its first bulletin, it has grown fast, now claims 60,000 members, of whom 47,000 pay the full membership fee of $3 a year. (There is limited membership for $1.) C. R.'s has stayed close to 60,000 since the strike, all but a few thousand student members paying the full...
...control over 18,000,000 votes, that the association is represented in 60% of the country's Congressional districts. No one would say how big the association is, except to place it kittenishly between 1,000 and 100,000. Probable size: 5,000 to 10,000. "If the membership is secret," said Mr. Emery, "no one knows how big a club you're swinging." He was not at all discouraged, he added, at the convention's small attendance. "After all," he said, "only 30 small businessmen attended the Boston Tea Party, and they played a pretty...
Unlike most labor organizations, A.F.A. did not regard willingness to join as a recommendation for membership; repentance before baptism was its motto. It planned to make carnivals respectable or break them. This was clever salesmanship on the part of A.F.A. Bulletins sent to State and county fair officials, mayors, sheriffs, Rotary, Kiwanis, etc., made it quite clear that if a carnival could not display A.F.A. and A.F. of L. insignia it was because "it permits gambling, indecency, immorality . . . or is unfair to organized labor." Consequently, instead of resisting unionization, carnivaleers were anxious to get the good-conduct badge that A.F.A...