Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forever barred Franco Spain from membership...
...hankering, a town to print in, and a shirtful of type slung over his back. How different and difficult the job is today was described in detail last week in a Supreme Court decision. The case grew out of the refusal of the Associated Press to sell an A.P. membership to Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. The court, by a 5-to-3 vote, found the great A.P. guilty of helping its member papers to choke off ambitious rivals...
...incorporated itself under a New York state law which applies to hunting and fishing clubs. And, like such exclusive clubs, the A.P. practices the right of blackball. Once blackballed by a rival, an applicant's only recourse is to throw himself on the mercy of the A.P. membership, which is all too willing to logroll ("You vote against my rival, I'll vote against yours"). Once in the A.P., if the applicant has any exclusive news services of his own, he must let his A.P. competitor have them at the same rate. And to get his membership...
Collective Power. The court ruled that an A.P. member must no longer be allowed to keep out a competitor (although the A.P. membership as a whole will still be able to reject applicants). It also ordered the A.P. to loosen its airtight news-trading agreement with the Canadian Press. In doing so, the court majority paid its disrespects to the A.P.'s familiar plea that freedom of the press was at issue: "Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the Constitution, but freedom to combine to keep others from publishing is not. ... [A publisher has no right to] a peculiar...
...University of Chicago's Quadrangle (faculty) Club, from which President Robert M. Hutchins resigned last year when a prospective candidate was blackballed for the first time in club history (TIME, Dec. 11), 17 student-waiters last week quit in a body because of the club's "illiberal membership attitude." Other students promptly began picketing the club...