Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battle Lines. Last week this good will among his membership stood him in good stead. He had announced that the musicians were out of the recording business for good & all. This could be interpreted as meaning that he wanted the companies to discover a way of giving him royalties (now forbidden by the Taft-Hartley Act), and of shouldering the responsibility of suggesting it. Whatever happened would not happen soon. Last week nothing would have horrified the big record producers more than an end to the ban. They had built up huge stockpiles of master recordings, a great many...
Admitting under protest a membership of over 3,000, the Student Apathy League dwarfs the more active HLU, HYRC, and HYD. League spokesmen point to their slogan, "Boredom Is a Fundamental Right," and state that they passively oppose everything, including passive resistance...
Fearful that membership drives of more active organizations would deplete their swollen ranks, the SAL admitted it might lodge a mild pretest with College officials. "All this reform balderdash is getting rather trying," sighed President Bottle. "It's getting so a man can't stagnate in peace...
...Young Republican Club spring membership drive will great students as they return from their between-terms vacation, William A. Rusher, president of the club, announced last night. Rusher also revealed that he expected the membership amassed by the drive to surpass all previous enrollments of University political groups...
...refutes our critics on the left, who maintained that only extremists are willing to work," Houghteling said, "and at the same time it makes ridiculous the claims to pre-eminence of our right-wing adversaries, who seem to believe that the number of innocents from whom a dollar membership dues can be extracted is the only important consideration...