Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around the U. S. laws against lotteries is to think up a high-sounding name for an organization, enroll "members" at so much per head, hold a "contest" in which they may win large cash prizes. Last week the Grand National Treasure Hunt, which sells $1 "applications for membership" in the Association for Legalizing American Lotteries, was just ending its third such contest when the Post Office Department clapped a fraud order on the scheme, barred the mails to its promoters...
...Association for Legalizing American Lotteries, on which the Post Office took its first and firmest action, is headed by Major Thomas George Lanphier, U. S. A., retired. Of proceeds from the sale of numbered applications for membership in the Association. Grand National Treasure Hunt keeps 50% for expenses and 25% "for itself." Harder to win than Golden Stakes, Grand National Treasure Hunt involves eight cartoons, lists 30 song titles under each one. Winners, picked by a jury of "artists and song experts," get prizes totaling...
...National Committee, moreover, has no power to impose its will upon affiliated groups. The most severe disciplinary action it could take would be to relieve Harvard of the obligation to pay the annual membership dues. The chief argument for affiliation is not that it will give additional material services to Harvard, but that the problems we are studying are national in character, and need national and coordinated attention...
Contrary to the impression received by the Editor, all factions in our rapidly growing membership have shown a spirit of compromise consistent with the principles of rigid parliamentary procedure. To quote two phrases from the editorial, the Harvard Student Union is showing itself to be an organization in which the "the real political beliefs of Harvard students" can "find adequate means of expression." Bruce O. Bliven, Jr. '37 Robert J. Cumming '38 Lawrence S. Levy '39 Robert S. Chafee '36 G.B. Mayberry 1G D. Boone Schirmer '37 Robert S. Brainerd...
...which is trying to be all things to all men, is shown in the card sent to members of the Harvard group. It presented four issues, ranging from the moderate to the hysterical, and then declared that belief in "one or all the issues" would be the qualification for membership. Such a lack of conviction and honest program shows what can be expected of the Harvard Student Union under national management...