Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring the League received an extension of its Council charter until after election day. The group had declined in membership during pre-election campaigning, as many members joined partisan clubs. (The eight undergraduates who signed for RLD at Pay Day will have their dues returned...
...Membership Discrimination...
...question of discrimination in membership, Watson said that "it is very hard to do anything about that; I should like to give the problem more thought...
...National Interfraternity Conference had omitted the touchy question from the agenda; it came up on the conference floor in Washington last week just the same. Agreed a majority of the representatives of U.S. Greek-letter societies, in a resolution swathed in verbal cotton wool: fraternities that have "selective membership provisions" (i.e., whose bylaws bar anybody on grounds of race or religion) ought to "eliminate such selectivity provisions." The vote: 36 for, 3 against, 19 abstaining...
...loyalty order now in force was promulgated by President Truman in March 1947 in Executive Order 9825. The order itself did not define the world "disloyalty" but set up certain standards by which the Attorney General could determine who was disloyal by membership is, or sympathetic association, with certain organizations which he, the Attorney General would determine are subversive. Thus, the power to decide who was eligible for government employment was placed in the hands of one man, unfettered by any unconstitutional guarantees of due process of law. Justice Jackson condemned this type of proceeding when, speaking for the Supreme...