Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waited for the followers whom Mother Ann prophesied would join them in the New World. In 1780, the followers began to show up. From then on, the Shakers slowly spread, settling together in communities called "families" from Maine to southwest Kentucky. Between 1840 and 1860, they attained their peak membership. Their peculiar religious practices caused the world's people to persecute them. Mother Ann's life is believed to have been shortened by a beating she took from a Massachusetts mob. But the Shakers' honesty and industry at last won them general respect...
Principles laid down by delegates at a meeting of the membership committee of the United Nations Security Council indicated that the applications of Albania and eight other countries would have rough sledding, with no present assurance that any would be accepted...
...Social Council, Soviet Russia successfully defended Hungary against a Cuban attempt to put the present Communist-dominated government of Hungary into the "undemocratic class in which the U.N. has put Franco Spain. The Council by 10 to 1 vote, with the United States abstaining, approved Hungary's application for membership in the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO...
...United Nations is sponsored by the Soviet Union ran into a four power road block at Lake Success yesterday, with the outlook growing doubtful that any of them would be accepted. Russia, however, won a diplomatic victory in UNESCO, as she successfully defended Hungary's application for UNESCO membership against a Cuban motion that would have put the Russian satellite in the same excluded category as Spain...
...then on he was Franklin Roosevelt's man. On one occasion, Roosevelt called him "America's spiritual ambassador of good will" to front-line troops of all the Allies. His son, Clark, was one of the U.S. chaplains killed in World War II.* His latest extracurricular activity: membership in President Truman's committee on universal military training...