Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undertake a simultaneous organizing drive on all fronts to offset C. I. O.'s rapid membership gains...
...require all local unions to join appropriate city central bodies and State federations (membership in which has heretofore only been recommended). Reason for this move was to maintain A. F. of L. control and prevent locals being "stolen...
...flag of the New York Stock Exchange in memory of its most famed member-John Davison Rockefeller. Only once did Mr. Rockefeller ever enter the Exchange. That was in 1883 when he bought his seat, the rules-requiring his personal apearance before the admissions committee. But his membership, entitling him to low commissions, saved him vast sums in his personal transactions. He paid $30,000 for his seat, saw it sink to $15,500 in the 1890s, rise to $625,000 in the 19205, sink again to the current figure, $91,000. When the membership was enlarged...
...years ago the City Bar decided that although women were not ineligible for membership, it was "inadvisable" to admit them because the Association had been founded when there were no women lawyers and it could not have been intended for them. During 45 minutes of debate on the subject last week it was pointed out that the Association might lose its tax-exempt privileges as an educational institution if the exclusion of women continued...
...churches, the Methodist, Evangelical & Reformed and Disciples of Christ, disowned the commission which appoints chaplains. Many a U. S. churchman would strip the chaplain of his rank and uniform. Of this the Association meeting in Chicago last week was acutely conscious, but an estimated 90% of its membership is satisfied with the chaplaincy as now constituted, and the matter was not publicly discussed. Said one chaplain loftily: "We prefer to emphasize our principles by example rather than debate." Said U. S. Chief of Chaplains Alva Jennings Brasted: "We have no grievance against anyone. Countless facts bear testimony that the Lord...