Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coolidge had occasion to sleep in its soft beds, the Hamilton had 3,800 members. But Chicago Republicanism struck hard times two full years before the New Deal, when the late Anton J. Cermak swept clownish Republican Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson out of City Hall. Membership dropped from 2,300 in 1930 to less than 1,000 in 1935. That year, owing $215,000 in back taxes and penalties and $86,666 back rent on its site to the estate of Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, the Hamilton filed a petition to reorganize under...
...Society got little publicity, after 15 months has but four "local sections" (New York, Washington, Pittsburgh, Chicago). What the membership lacked in numbers, however, last week it made up in distinction when a New York Times story revealed that President Franklin Roosevelt had accepted the first A. P. S. honorary membership,* along with Chief Justice Hughes and ex-President Hoover...
...union, to be of value to the employees, must be a permanent organization, always ready to protect the interests of its members. If better working conditions are obtained by a union which has not secured closed shop, experience shows that membership drops off, because employees receive the benefits of the union's activity even though they do not belong. The union then ceases to be in a position to protect the employees' interests, and the employer is once more in a position to economize at their expense...
Assisted by Cecil F. Rowe 2L, Marshall will explain the structure and purpose of the society of which he is the head. Membership is open to all interested. Later in the term, several teams will be picked from the members to debate outside Freshmen and prep school teams...
...court for each one over 70-the total would have been six-nevertheless, when the smoke of battle cleared away, Mr. Roosevelt's formal defeat had been accompanied by the retirement of arch-conservative Mr. Justice Van Devanter. And no matter how much his former Ku Klux Klan membership belies any innate liberalism, Mr. Justice Black, who was given the vacant chair, is a bona fide New Dealer and may be expected to vote with the liberal wing, as he did this week. Thus in the 1937-38 term, the liberals will have, if not a working majority...