Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High on tonight's agenda will be plans for the circulation of petitions throughout the University opposing MacArthur's nomination. Membership in the VAM will be restricted to veterans, but Kornfeld said any student will be free to sign the group's petitions...
Postponing action on three of the major issues before it, the Student Council last night underwent a membership turnover, as it gave its go-ahead signal to the pending constitution of the Harvard Democratic Club...
...offices without protest. People who had bitterly denounced the action committees a few days before were now happy if they were allowed to join them. Throughout the country there was an unseemly rush.to join the Communist Party; district party workers labored over piles of applications. (Gottwald announced that party membership had risen to 1,400,000 from 1,250,000.) There was no resistance because there was no hope. The people might have resisted had Benes moved; Benes might have resisted, had the people moved...
...Admit Eire to membership...
...they banned the Rashtriya Sway-am Sewak Sangh (Organization for Service to the Nation), militant Hindu youth organization of which Gandhi's assassin, Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, was a member. Some 1,200 leaders and members were arrested for questioning. The secret R.S.S.S., which had mushroomed to a membership of about 2,000,000 since the communal riots began last year, drew most of its strength from the warlike Mahratta people of western India, who have always regarded the Moslems as invading interlopers...