Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan fortnight ago President David Dubinsky of the huge Ladies' Garment Workers' Union publicly renounced his membership in the Socialist Party, declared himself for President Roosevelt. Last week the progressive American Federation of Hosiery Workers fell in step with its 60,000 members. Convening in Philadelphia, delegates approved (113-to-47) a resolution that "wage-earners have no other practical alternative than to vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Presidential election...
Members of the lordly National Academy of Sciences (membership limited to 300) and a few outsiders listened attentively last week from their comfortable leather chairs when old Dr. Boas stood up in the Academy's severe, oak-paneled lecture room to deliver what was probably his last public address as a practicing scientist. Next month Dr. Boas will retire from the faculty of Columbia University, which he joined 40 years...
Drearily dishonest is the average U. S. Protestant minister. He pads his church membership list by about 25%. Of the names he keeps on it, 8% are those of dead people. On an average Sunday he preaches to a house 70% empty. On that Sunday nine out of every ten people in the U. S. either go to a Catholic church or go to none...
Washington, D.C. -- Alexander Forbes '04, associate professor of Physiology, and Joseph L. Walsh '16, professor of Mathematics, were elected members of the National Academy of Sciences at the annual meeting here this week. Membership in the Academy is generally considered the highest scientific honor in the United States...
...true that they signed up in October for membership in Dudley Hall for a whole year, and they probably owe the five dollar fee for the second semester that is now being charged on the term bill. But the letter that was sent to commuters in February, asking them to come to Dudley Hall and "renew" their membership for the second semester, could well give rise to misunderstanding. You don't ask a person to come renew a contract when you're trying to collect an amount that is already owing under the original contract...