Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DeMille's plans are still tentative, because of his continuing war with AFRA (American Federation of Radio Artists). When he refused to pay a $1 assessment in 1944, arguing that it was for political purposes, AFRA forced DeMille from the air. Since a majority of the union membership had approved the assessment, the Supreme Court upheld AFRA. Armed with a new legal weapon-the Taft-Hartley Act Act-DeMille is confidently returning to the fray...
...DeMille's plans are still tentative, because of his continued war with AFRA (American Federation of Radio Artists). When he refused to pay a $1 assesment in 1944, arguing that it was for political purposes. AFRA forced DeMille from the air. Since a majority of the union membership had approved the assesment, the Supreme Court upheld AFRA. Armed with a ew legal weapon-the Taft-Hartley Act-DeMille is confidentaly returning to the fray...
...Foreign News Service, headquartered in the 28 cities throughout the world where we maintain permanent news bureaus. These are the full-time correspondents of the TIME organization we have set up to gather and verify the news-augmented by the full report we receive through our membership in the world-girdling Associated Press...
...truce settled on Palestine last week it seemed probable that the new state of Israel, already recognized by 15 nations, would seek and get U.N. membership at next fall's meeting in Paris. It was time to stop pondering the settled question of whether there would be a Jewish state, time, to start asking what kind of nation Israel...
...told the story of frustrated Phil Blake, impatient idealist, and his conversion to active membership in the Communist Party. ("He found answers there . . . some sense of security, of common purpose.") It told of Phil's new creed ("We do not question . . .") and of his development into a perfectionist for the U.S. and an apologist for the Sovíet Union. It showed Phil at work in labor unions ("Come early and vote late") and in front organizations that turned and twisted (and took new names) with the whip-cracks of the party line...