Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club was organized for the purpose of "the association of admirers and lovers of Deanna Durbin at Harvard." There are no dues and the only requirement for membership is that a prospective membership is that a prospective member must see every Durbin picture three times and dream about her four nights in succession...
Adequate steps were never taken to correct the initial impression that the University favored the Representative Association. Indeed this impression rapidly became a conviction in the minds of caretakers and chambermaids. Janitors and other men in positions of responsibility did not hesitate to urge membership in the H. U. E. R. A. and to reward members with little favors. The A. F. of L., on the other hand, lost no time in branding their rival as a company dominated union and pointing out to bewildered waitresses the inequity of such an organization. The University, it is apparent, did not foster...
...workers were moved by these erroneous reports, they were influenced much more by self-interest. To kitchen and dining-hall workers, young, rapidly becoming proficient at their jobs, desirous of summer jobs now and better winter jobs later on, the American Federation of Labor had much to offer, whereas membership in an inside union would have proved a drawback. For the other groups, older, on the whole better off, anchored to Cambridge by families and real estate, there was little in and international brotherhood to compensate for its high dues. It is significant, too, that those who most trusted...
...Washington. Harry Oldperson. 55, and Joe Butterfly. 71, both Blackfoot Indians, gave 30-year-old James Roosevelt a headdress, a Blackfoot membership and a new name: "Eagle Child...
...Chartered the heretofore independent Progressive Mine Workers of America, now largely confined to the Illinois coal fields, as a national rival of the United Mine Workers of America, key union in John L. Lewis' C.I.O. structure; authorized a radio invasion of John L. Lewis' membership via A.F. of L. Station WCFL, Chicago. As an oldtime United Mine Worker Mr. Green bitterly fought, bitterly despised the "dual" Progressives. Having been expelled by U.M.W., ex-Miner Green last week said A.F. of L. would support its new international to the utmost, did not say whether he himself would join...