Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half a century, New Orleans' fantastic Mardi Gras balls were strictly for the upper crust. Nobody without money, blue blood, or both gained membership in the secret men's clubs or "krewes"* which staged them. Before 1900 there were only five clubs: Comus, Momus, Twelfth Night, Rex and Proteus. They culled guest lists with pernickety care, asked only the fairest of debutantes to serve as carnival queens. But times changed. The socially ambitious began forming their own krewes...
...members, and final tally came less than a month later, when but a handful of the mailed ballots had returned, and the remainder were still buried in scattered APO stations around the country. The V-12 unit in College effectively elected the '46 Committee and the unanimous V-12 membership on it seems to bear out this contention...
...constitution, after clearing through the College organizations whose delegates will make up the membership of the "Key," will be presented to the Council for ratification this spring...
Dirigible Pioneer Hugo Eckener, who was in the U.S. last year talking dirigibles with experts, was fined 100,000 marks by a French zone denazification court. The charge: membership in the Nazi party, wartime profiteering...
...fraternal benefit society for Roman Catholic men (who are forbidden to join the Masons). Present membership: approximately...