Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...repeated a lie by ... John Roy Carlson that this writer was a member of the "Bund" and a Klansman, both of these statements are false and I will submit an affidavit under oath that I never made application for membership into the German-American Bund at any time, never paid dues therein, never carried a membership card, never attended even one of its membership meetings...
...insofar as the "Klan" is concerned, I never belonged to the Klan, never made application for membership in the same, never donned a Robe, never took an OATH in the same...
...Constitutional Committee proposed, first of all, that membership on the new Council be elected from the Houses, with regard for no Class save the Sophomores, who would be underrepresented in the Houses. This proposition evidently stuck in the full Council's craw, and this section, together with some others, has been sent back to the Committee with the recommendation that further consideration be given to Class representation. The Council, although seemingly nullifying some ten-weeks work of its committee, has actually taken a long range point of view in realizing that Class currents, totally disrupted by the war, will again...
...proposed method of nomination, however, appears doomed to failure. Trying to rid itself of the objectionable nominating committee method of putting men on a ballot, the new constitution would require 25 percent of the total House membership to be present at an open nomination, the alternative being another, but non-Council, nominating committee. In the light of the poor attendance at the Constitutional Forums, 25 percent, or about 80 men per House, seems an absurdly high attendance figure...
...Everett Moore Baker, pink-faced and prematurely white-haired at 45, has been minister of Cleveland's First Unitarian Church (with the denomination's third largest membership) since 1942. Really a New Englander, he was born in Massachusetts, where he was a preacher for nine years. Until he took the Cleveland pulpit, he was vice president of the American Unitarian Association, head of its publications and of a Boston radio program...