Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Asked unions to bar Communists from membership...
...sick. With the Garssons' own defense still to come, it would be at least a fortnight before the verdict was in. But Andy May's bluster was wearing thin. As the cross-examination wound up, the best he could muster was a threat to summon the full membership of his old committee, if necessary, to attest to his personal integrity...
...colleagues on the commission had some heavy chewing to do on what seemed an indigestible Korean political situation. How, for instance, could the occupiers deal with Korea's welter of 200 political groups? Wearily commented a U.S. official: "There are three times more people registered for party membership in Korea than there is population in the country...
Today the most promising national organization strictly for collegiates concerned with influencing political issues is Students for Democratic Action, junior arm of Wilson Wyatt's Americans for Democratic Action. Even in its present state of acute growing pains it may represent with its alleged 5,000 membership in 75 chapters the advent of a new force which can effectively correlate the scattered social consciences of the political animals. Past patterns demand revision; for the so-called "student movement" of the last decade sported labyrinthine politics at once harlequinade and sorry spectacle. From 1935 to 1939 the American Student Union held...
...Communist Party Line, it would embark upon its adventure explicitly inviting Little Redwing out and defining its direction in terms of Roosevelt, Wilson, Jackson, and Jefferson. The competition rests with Young Progressive Citizens of America (YPCA) claiming 25 chapters and American Youth for Democracy (AYD) claiming a membership of 5,000 distributed in high schools, colleges, and what have euphemistically been termed young people's circles. At Harvard the Liberal Union minutes show a majority stand endorsing SDA principles and favoring affiliation as soon as possible. For those who were bewildered by the proceedings several weeks ago the simple explanation...