Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truett. When the single-room, red-brick Valley Christian Church needed a pastor, he began preaching on alternate Sundays to its congregation of eight. Since 1923 he has carried on alone, with weddings and sick calls as well as sermons. Now his congregations run to 150, out of a membership...
...heart ailment; in Takoma Park, Md. Handsome, handshaking, Welsh-born "Puddler Jim" was a helper in an iron works at eleven, later made a fortune in investments before he entered politics. A longtime power in the Loyal Order of Moose (director general since 1906), he pushed its membership from 247 to more than 800,000, founded its two major charities (Moosehaven, Fla., for the aged; Mooseheart, Ill., for widows & orphans). In 1933 he was one of five acquitted in a Moose lottery scandal (his alleged cut: $172,300) in which three associates were convicted of conspiracy...
With a final College vote of 1957 for and 575 against membership in NSA, the Council voted to notify national headquarters at Madison, Wisconsin, of affiliation and appropriated 241 dollars for dues...
Gide's individualism led him to reject Communism (after a visit to the U.S.S.R. in 1936), and to scorn vulgar popularity. He once wrote: "I have passionately desired fame . . . [but] I like to be liked on good grounds." Apparently Gide, who thinks membership in the French Academy is beneath him, thought the Swedish Academy liked him on good grounds. He said the Nobel award made him "very happy." He was also richer by 146,115 Swedish crowns...
...Texans had a state religion, it would probably be Baptist. Of Texas' 11,000-odd churches, 3,300 are Baptist (total membership: nearly a million). In Amarillo last week, at the state's Baptist General Convention, Executive Secretary Howard Williams reminded his brethren of the obligations that go with power. Said he: "Texas Baptists have grown to a mighty people. We must not be unmindful of the tremendous responsibility which goes with such strength. More than any other group of Christians, the general conditions in Texas, both good and evil, can be laid at the door...