Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Green became president as hard times were falling on the A.F.L. Labor had been roundly defeated in the strikes after World War I, and the gay '20s were far from gay in the nation's labor temples. Membership was dwindling-by the depression year of 1933, it descended to a low of 2,126,796. Green, the man of peace, innocently set out to solve his problems by attempting to establish a liaison with industry, to sell organized labor as a sort of super employment agency which would do away with strikes and friction...
Discipline is self imposed by a large Student Council which includes membership from all the graduate schools. The formal right of this body to expel a student is rarely tested, but delinquents who have suffered its condemnation have frequently just dropped out of sight...
Commending the University on its program to save food, the group called for the allocation of all money and provisions saved by Harvard in following the President's food policy to student relief in Europe, as it held its first general membership meeting of the term...
...looks as though the struggle goes on for at least another half-year. In the opposing lineups the Theatre Workshop seems to rate the edge for a power struggle. The Veterans outnumber the HDC in total active membership and particularly in the number of stellar performers they seem able to attract. They also seem to have a consistent monopoly on ambition, with their tackling of the scenic and casting problems of "Joan" and "Henry" as opposed to the Dramatic Club's sketchy "Lefty" and proposed bare-stage production of "Enemy of the People." On the other side of the line...
...Anglo-Saxon custom is to go find out. Here the seemingly obvious course calls for responsible interested parties on the University scene to go about the formation of an impartial, broad-based group to investigate the inner workings of the Hygiene Department and its standing in the intercollegiate picture. Membership could include representatives from the Student Council, Graduate Advisory Council, Law School Record, and Business School News as well as a spokesman for University Hall and a prominent Boston medic...