Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the House of Representatives who introduced in Congress in 1919 a resolution creating the American Legion as a national and quasi governmental organization, and as one familiar with the constitution of the Legion, I must direct your attention to the fact that no individual is eligible for membership in the American Legion except those persons who served in the military or naval services of the United States during the period of the World War, and hold an honorable discharge from such service...
...were not in the military or naval services of the United States during the World War, and do not hold an honorable discharge therefrom, you cannot be a Legionnaire. Furthermore, there is no such thing as an honorary membership in the American Legion-nothing but active membership." I am bringing this to your attention primarily in the interest of accuracy, but more particularly because we Legionnaires are jealous of our membership in the organization and do not welcome a claim to such membership by one whose record consistently has been in opposition to veterans...
Approximately 75 out of a paid membership of 102 attended. To their executive council they named in addition to the three officers, Robert S. Brainerd '38, Laurence S. Levy '39, Harold L. Stubbs '39, and James L. Tobin '39, Morris Earle '38 and J. Sinclair Armstrong '38 were appointed to the board as representatives of the Student Council and CRIMSON. Kaltenborn will serve for Phillips Brooks House...
Other leading business included the announcement of a new Campus Questions Committee to deal with student problems around the Yard and of dates of preliminary meetings for all four committees, Peace, Civil Liberties, Campus, and Labor, at which permanent chairmen will be elected, and membership and programs established...
Election of officers, adoption of the year's program, and division of membership into committees from the business for the first meeting of the Harvard Student Union in Phillips Brooks House at 8 o'clock tonight...