Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flushed with emotion, Chancellor Hitler then departed amid the songs of the Reichstag chorus, convened the German Cabinet and radiantly conferred on seven Ministers, who have hitherto not been Nazis,f full membership in the Party, pressing upon each a gold party badge. Thus Der Führer, on his Fourth Anniversary of Power, achieved what he has often spoken of as a "cherished dream": a Cabinet composed entirely of Nazis...
...prices got out of bounds." Something the retail leaders wanted to keep in bounds quite as much as prices was internal opposition to the "little NRA" outlined by the Dry Goods Association directors at Atlantic City last autumn (TIME, Dec. 7). Put up to the membership last week, the proposed platform called for minimum wages, maximum hours, fair trade provisions and a ban on child labor-all on a voluntary basis buttressed by State statutes. Coming as it did right after the election, the proposal looked -ike a shrewd attempt to head off Federal regulation along the same lines. When...
...Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots," "The Great Train Robbery," famous early melodrama, and "A Trip to the Moon," are features of the first program. It was announced that there are about 150 seats available for the afternoon showing. Undergraduates may join the Society by payment of $1. This membership entitles them to a ticket for all five programs...
...these brawls was the non-union bitterness they highlighted. No one, not even President Martin, knew last week how many workers belonged to his Union. Publicly he claims "over 100,000," privately puts the number closer to 150,000. Without allowance for the usual exaggeration of union claims, his membership was still a decided minority of the industry's 450,000 employes. Formed was a Flint Alliance of 8,500 citizens, headed by onetime Mayor George Boysen. to combat the strike. In Flint and elsewhere some 47,000 G. M. employes were reported to have signed petitions declaring themselves...
...profession has become popularly characterized by that minority portion of its membership which has consistently taken a hostile stand to proposals and legislation of a forward-looking character . . . [concerning] child labor, reasonable business regulation, security and labor." "[The minority's concern for liberty has been property." secondary to its concern for Earnest Morris Ernst's clarion call did not go unanswered. Within a fortnight more than 250 letters came into the National Lawyers Guild's Manhattan offices, others were addressed to Mr. Walsh personally. Preceding a national convention in Washington next month, scores of cities sought charters...