Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raymond Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette won the award for distinguished reporting with his series exposing the one-time membership of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black in the Ku Klux Klan. For his Broadway success, "Our Town," the dramatic prize went to Thornton Wilder...
...Party membership has increased 40% in the past six weeks and in the 1935 presidential election, party candidates polled 1,250,000 votes...
...visible working model" for Catholics throughout the U. S., a Press Relations Committee was formed in Manhattan, its membership representing 14 national Catholic groups like the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Daughters of America, Fordham Alumni, etc. The committee divided into subcommittees, one to watch for "anti-Catholic propaganda" in each important newspaper and magazine, with a view to beginning negotiations if a publication persists in being biased. Father Toomey denies that the aims of the Press Relations Committee resemble those of the Legion of Decency. Declared he: "The function of these committees is not primarily one of protest or criticism...
...only $196 in the till, Chicago had the biggest brokerage failure in 15 years. Hoagland & Allum never belonged to a stock exchange, did belong to the Investment Bankers Association until 1932. That year it went through reorganization and the I. B. A. refused to admit it to membership again. Subsequent operations were rarely successful and the firm got deeper & deeper in the hole, claimed to be engaged in such bizarre business as buying pistols and rifles for British and Chinese syndicates, staved off creditors with talk that Milton Snavely Hershey, the chocolate magnate, was about to give...
Although there has been no change in officers, determination of club policy has been placed in the hands of the five chairmen of governing committees. Policy, Finance, Membership, College, and Publicity. Although a new constitution will be drafted, the basic purpose of the group will not be altered...