Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philippines, Hawaii, Alaska and every one of the 48 U. S. States are members of the Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (which now includes the George Washington Brigade) of Leftist Spain. Total membership of the Friends is about 25,000, all paying annual dues of $1, and many contributing more besides. About 3,500 are blood relatives of the jaunty "Abies and Georgies" who in devil-may-care brown berets are fighting the Spanish Rightists. The Friends have been collecting about $15,000 per month, last week launched a campaign to raise $50,000 per month from...
Each House will send a two-man team to League contests and House squads will be divided into three groups, one for each League. The membership of the teams will rotate among the members of the squads so every man will have the chance to speak at loast twice during a semester...
...first of his works were volumes of poetry. The whole sum of them was dwarfed by the 1,224-page Anthony Adverse, rale, 900,000 copies, His Action at Aquils just out, the row of Hervey Allen books on the shelf in his Maryland farm now totals fourteen. his membership in college fraternities totals two, Sigma Chi and Omicron Delta Kappa...
...York Stock Exchange were to expel its biggest member firm, the act would be comparable to what happened last week on the Chicago grain exchange. Charging that it deliberately manipulated prices and attempted to corner corn futures last September, the Chicago Board of Trade expelled from membership Cargill Grain Co. of Illinois and its three top officers. Cargill Grain of Illinois is a subsidiary of Cargill Inc., generally accepted as the largest grain elevator and merchandising enterprise in the U. S. Snapped the Board of Trade: "Today's action is final and is not subject to review...
...regard a future merely as a hedging or speculative mechanism. Nor is this the only seed of contention between Cargill and the Board of Trade. Though Cargill has been in business since 1865 and has branches from Seattle to Albany, not until 1935 did it pry its way to membership in the Chicago Board of Trade Clearing House. The Board of Trade long kept Cargill out because it was a corporation instead of the more clublike partnership the Board prefers. It was thus necessary for Cargill to clear its deals through other members, pay fat commissions. For similar reasons...