Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe," cried this Texan, "the membership of this House is entitled to know where Mr. Green and his committee gets authority to express themselves as representing the A. F. of L. against the Frazier-Lemke bill...
...League's membership is rapidly increasing at Harvard and plans are being made for chapters at other colleges...
...large general list a lively line of pink political writings which have made his firm the semi-official organ of Britain's intellectual Left. Although Publisher Gollancz says he expects to do no better than make ends meet with the Left Book Club, its membership is thoroughly circularized with impelling Gollancz advertising calculated to whet the notoriously voracious literary radical hunger for more costly Red texts on the Gollancz list...
Moses W. Ware '04, and William W. Austin '39 were elected to honorary membership for their work this year...
...figures, shows that U. S. Protestant church attendance reached its peak in 1880, has since been "running downhill." In 1921 Protestant churches signed up 1,710,000 new members, in 1935 only 990,000. Although other church statisticians have arranged their figures to indicate that total U. S. church membership keeps abreast of the increase in U. S. population, Roger Babson declares that while 12% of the population attended Protestant churches in 1930, the rate was down to 10.8% last year. Dejected by his findings, good Congregationalist Babson concluded through his spokesman-secretary: "If church attendance continues to peter...