Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberal Union executive committee members will ask the HLU tonight for power of attorney to act in the Film Series litigation. The request will be made at a joint membership meeting in Littauer Center Auditorium of the HLU and Radcliffe Students for Democratic Action...
...Scouts of America (membership: 2,221,157) celebrated their 39th anniversary with a report to the nation: during 1948 the Scouts collected 500,000 pounds of food for the Friendship Train, gathered 781,396,000 pounds of paper and planted 1,137,856 trees...
...Zulus in New Orleans' boisterous Mardi Gras. For the first time in its 33-year history, the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club (founded primarily to assure dues-paying members a decent burial) had gone out of town for its carnival king. From its cross-section membership in the past had come Mardi Gras kings who were porters, shopkeepers and undertakers, but Trumpeter Armstrong was big-time royalty, even a world figure. Many jazz experts, who can be as snooty and esoteric as existentialists or the followers of a Bach cult, solemnly hail him as the greatest musical genius...
...away. A few, like Joe Oliver, headed north for Chicago. But Satchmo Armstrong stayed on in New Orleans for a while. With Oliver gone, Louis began to get his due as the finest cornet in town. At 18 he married a girl named Daisy Parker and bought himself a membership in the Zulus...
Although Missouri law still makes segregation mandatory in public schools, that line may be weakening, too. Recently the Missouri State Teachers Association voted to accept Negro teachers into membership for the first time. Last week, St. Louis' circuit court was deliberating on the case of 20-year-old Marjorie Toliver, who had sued to be transferred from city-operated Stowe Teachers College (for Negroes) to the exclusively white Harris Teachers College, also city-operated. In Columbia this week, students were planning to poll faculty and fellow undergraduates on whether Negroes should be admitted to the University of Missouri...