Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 15,000,000 low-salaried German workers the most active and pleasurable of the Reich's manifold organizations is the recreation-providing, culture-giving Kraft durch Freude (Strength Through Joy) Society. To 3,500,000 Italian workers membership in the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (National After-Work Organization) is a similar welcome means of getting cheap theatre and opera seats, cut-price vacations, inexpensive athletic facilities, free instruction in artistic and cultural studies...
...Awarded its highest honor (life membership in the N. E. A.) to 19-year-old Virginia Sappington, a $70-a-month teacher in Piety Hill School, near Chetopa, Kans., who last March herded 21 children into a ditch and saved their lives before a tornado made splinters of the school building...
...small mind." N. E. A.'s delegates cheered. Mr. Doherty dismissed Professor Counts by remarking that he was an adviser to the Moscow Summer School, to Professor Gellermann's charges, retorted that the Legion was democratically controlled by its 11,444 posts, today has the highest membership in its history-935,829. Added Lawyer Doherty: "I am just a humble Legionnaire. . . . I know that I have no connection with any intrenched interests, financial, business or military...
...rival unions are the Screen Writers Guild Inc. (membership 502) and Screen Playwrights Inc. (membership 132). Armed like any workers with the tools of their trade, words, the screenwriters went to war before election. John Lee Mahin, president of Screen Playwrights Inc. advertised in Hollywood's Variety: "Any charge or implication that Screen Playwrights is a company union or in any way producer controlled is a lie. . . ." On another page in the same magazine, Screenwriter Gene Fowler, addressed to Dudley Nichols, President of the Guild, his apologies for ever having joined Screen Playwrights: "As . . . an erratic old gentleman...
...more pearls to cast. In his official address as retiring moderator, he predicted a new revolt in Protestantism, back to primitive Christianity. It will include, said he, "a revolt against a few socialistic or capitalistic delegates, at national church conclaves, passing resolutions pretending to bind the entire membership." But the pearls lay where they fell. The convention proceeded to do just what Moderator Babson had been inveighing against: It adopted a resolution* condemning sale of war materials to Japan, and one asking the Government to respect conscientious objectors in time of war, adjourned impenitent...