Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What happened? Rotary had one of the lowest-attended meetings so far this year. An even dozen turned out for the night showing. ... Of my own parishioners, two from a membership of 211 showed...
...born, in a 1937 merger of A.F.L., C.I.O. and independent unions. Communist-picked switchboard operators and secretaries were slipped in; they became the basis of an efficient espionage system. A sympathetic secretary-treasurer and educational director were maneuvered into office to give Communists access to union finances and membership rolls, control of union newspapers...
Though Muster believed they had never amounted to more than 2% of the U.F.W.A.'s 42,000 membership, Party-liners and hangers-on were well enough entrenched by last month's convention to run the locals in New York, Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles. With that core of sure-fire delegates they had rammed through their own slate of officers, headed by Secretary-Treasurer Max Perlow, long-time veteran of New York Communist-front organizations...
When squat puppet president José Laurel invited him to join his cabinet, Roxas declined. He was appointed anyhow, and meetings were held at his bedside. Jap guards surrounded his house. He received checks which he did not cash. The newspapers announced his membership on puppet commissions before Roxas had heard of them. He resisted attempts to take him to Tokyo, but he did accept the chairmanship of a Laurel food-gathering commission-on the condition that "the Japanese do not get one grain of rice." And he helped write the puppet constitution-an act that has since thrown suspicion...
Secular Shadow. U.S. Protestantism, says Editor Morrison, may examine its yearly membership gains and complacently conclude that all is well. This would be about as intelligent as an assumption that a man is healthy merely because he is not losing weight...