Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Israel, just one year old last week, got exactly what it had wanted for a birthday present: membership in U.N. The General Assembly having voted it in, 37-to-12 (with nine abstentions), welcomed U.N.'s 59th member with a standing ovation, politely forgot that the Israelis had again & again been at outs with U.N. The Israelis had balked when U.N. demanded that Jerusalem be internationalized, balked again when they were told to take back Palestine's Arab refugees...
...Membership in the new church has grown by 795,002-from 7,856,060 to 8,651,062-an increase of more than 10%. Contributions for use outside local churches zoomed from $11 million in 1940 to $28 million last year. The value of church property rose from $704,000,000 to $1,077,000,000. Most dramatic figure of all: though local mergers have reduced the number of churches, there are now 5,000 more Methodist Sunday schools (37,908) with an average attendance that has grown 18% in the last four years...
...Sample membership: James F. Brownlee, chairman of the Business-Education Committee of the Committee for Economic Development; Mrs. Bruce Gould, co-editor of the Ladies' Home Journal; Lester B. Granger, executive director of the National Urban League.; Leo Perlis, national director of the National C.I.O. Community Services Committee; Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the board of R. H. Macy & Co.; Richard Joyce Smith, chairman of the Board of Education of Fairfield, Conn.; James A. Stevenson, president of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. The full committee will total...
Finney said no money-raising concerts are contemplated on the way, since the Band will not have gathered its full membership until it reaches Palo Alto. However, if the trip is possible, the Band will probably play at a projected dance in the Stanford gymnasium the eve of the game...
...arranged for me to put in an application for membership. I don't remember whether I signed it or not. After six years it's not too clear. I don't know whether this constituted my being a member of the Communist Party...