Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep his Detroit meeting going until midnight if necessary to put deserters on the spot, he adjourned it early, mournfully watched a line of cars pull out for Toledo. The Toledo meeting claimed 702 delegates from 70 locals, representing more than half U. A. W.'s 400,000 membership. (The Mortimer faction last week told C. I. O. Boss Lewis that its dues collections were 30% of U. A. WVs peak.) An anti-Martinite but no extremist, Walter Reuther, head of Detroit's huge West Side local, hedged by attending the Detroit meeting himself, sending his brother Victor...
...Northern body) issued a bit of pleasant warm-weather reading for its 1,953,734 communicant members. During its last fiscal year the church took in $40,551,108, an increase of $1,523,303 over the year before. Per capita donations rose $1.04, to $21.24. Presbyterian membership dropped 21,112 souls, but only on paper. At Eastertime 25,000 people usually join the church, and the past fiscal year, ending last March 31, did not include Easter...
This week, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold, in charge of trustbusting, announced that he was bringing the A. M. A. before a grand jury for violation of the Sherman Act. Although there are 60 cooperative health organizations in the U. S., with a total membership of 1,500,000, Trust-Buster Arnold declared that he was not concerned with justifying their method of medical care. "There should be free and fair competition between new forms of organization for medical service and older types of practice. ..." The A. M. A. violated the Sherman Act, Arnold said, because it attempted...
...founded in Kansas City to train Unity teachers. A 1,320-acre farm 16 miles away is designed eventually to be "Unity City," a Jerusalem of Unity's anticipated Kingdom of God on earth. Unity has a predominantly feminine leadership; attracts few men to meetings; keeps no complete membership lists. It claims-although it negates many Christian teachings-that it works in the framework of the churches. It has also the framework of a publishing business-seven Unity magazines* have 2,000,000 paying subscribers. The department of absent treatment, called Society of Silent Unity, has a staff...
...creed might be described as a theological goulash of Rosicrucianism, Christian Science, Christianity, Supermind Science, faith healing and How to Win Friends and Influence People. As to the number of middle-aged ladies he has attracted, "the Christian Science Church doesn't publish the number of its membership," says Mr. Schafer; "Why should we?" However: "Our organization is unorganized. You can't define a thing like that...