Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High Commissioner John J. McCloy arrived in Germany last week and opened a new era in the occupation. The new Western German state should be on its feet in September; then a three-man, civilian Allied High Commission must guide its steps. The destination: full German membership in the family of democratic nations...
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Though 83, fiery Mrs. Terrell decided to fight. "I thought I'd be an arrant coward," she said, "unless I opened the way for other colored women." She applied for membership in the national A.A.U.W. and got in; Washington was ordered to take her in or get out of the association. Instead, Washington took the case to court and won the three-year fight; under the association's national bylaws, the court said, Washington had a right to exclude anyone it chose. Last week, at its national convention in Seattle, the A.A.U.W. voted to change the bylaws...
...urged members to "see this production [because it] has something important to say on one of the most important problems of our day." What the invitation did not need to say was that only whites will be welcome; the Press Club bars Negroes from its club rooms and from membership...
Among important positions which he held were an appointment to the International Commission on Nomenclature of Plants, Vice-President of the Section of Nomenclature of the International Botanical Congress--to be held in Stock-holm in 1950--and a membership in the British Society for the Bibliography of Natural History. He was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...