Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young I had a prof [whose] philosophy was: 'If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade.' The lemon Truman handed me I have squeezed so S.O.B. will stand for 'Servants of Brotherhood.' I am getting up an engraved 'Servants of Brotherhood' membership certificate, and maybe others will join me in enlisting folks who have sacrificed for their fellowmen...
Whenever Dave Beck wants anything, he goes after it. That is how he became a top man in the A.F.L. Teamsters (membership: 1,000,000), and labor overlord of the West. Last week, Beck showed how he was going after up to 2,000,000 new members for the A.F.L.'s biggest union...
...proposed charter would base membership in the Union Committee on election by "proctoral units" of about 50 men, instead of the current system of appointment by the proctors and Dean's Office and has raised considerable dispute...
Under the new plan, the representative and working groups would also have equal membership in the executive branches. The plan calls for either 30 or 32 members in each of the sections...
What impresses oldtimers (and boosts membership, now 1,300, at a rate of 15 to 20 a day) is Sylvia's knack for picking winners before they reach Broadway. Among her selections: Edward, My Son; Life With Mother; Anne of the Thousand Days; Death of a Salesman; Kiss Me, Kate. For this month she has chosen Sidney Kingsley's promising Detective Story. She has also closed a deal giving her members seats for April's South Pacific, whose author-producers, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, are notoriously fussy about what happens to their tickets...