Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to dour executive vice president Jonathan Eddy, the organization's professional, permanent chief who is satirically known to the membership as "the laughing boy from Connecticut," 47 Guile wage and working condition agreements are now in effect, where only seven flourished a year ago. The 47 current agreements cover 78 newspapers (many of them chainpapers). Membership in the twelve-month had increased from 5,716 to 11,112. The treasury had $231 on hand last year, $10,049 this year. A $20,000 war chest is to be collected. In one important aspect, however, the Guild remained unchanged...
...impression that his job was done, striking painters repudiated the settlement, voted 640 to 276 to hold out for F. M. P. C. jurisdiction over hairdressers and make-up men. Next day, the hairdressers and make-up men voted to reject the terms agreed to by their officers, refused membership in the I. A. T. S. E., which has a five-year non-strike agreement with producers. Deadlocked again but now minus a conciliator, F. M. P. C. members put on their pith helmets, went back to picketing along Hollywood's barricades...
With the purpose of providing in downtown New York, the Club being located on 56 Beaver Street, at William, a pleasant and inexpensive eating and meeting place, particularly for younger graduates who cannot afford a more expensive Club, the D.H.L.C. has steadily grown in membership throughout the depression...
With a very large number of men from 1937 going to New York next year the prospects for further growth loom large. At the moment there is a limit of 550 resident members, which quota is now full, a waiting list of 20 being in existance. Membership qualifications are approximately the same as those of the Harvard Club of New York. The initiation fee is $5, annual dues $10, meals $.85 and $1.00. The Club is open five days a week for lunch...
...Presidents really "pack" the Court? Indeed yes, says Mr. Hendrick. As examples he cites Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, Grant. Congress once packed it too, when it voted to limit the Court's membership to seven rather than let President Johnson fill the two vacancies. "That all Presidents 'pack' the Court by placing in it men sympathetic with their states of mind, the record shows." But Mr. Hendrick believes that in the long run the Supreme Court, no matter whether it is regarded as a packed trunk or a Pandora's box, reflects the changing voice, the unchanged...