Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitution of the SDA declares against "Communists and all other totalitarian groups," and the debate on the amendment revolved around the question of whether every HLU member could support this stand. The proposed amendment would have required every man in HLU to get an SDA membership card and thereby personally back their principle of non-affiliation with Communists...
They have, instead, a very tough row to hoe. When only one-eighth of an organization's membership shows up at regular meetings and only a quarter at elections, the implementation of any action program is formidably difficult. The awakening and solidification of the membership must therefore be a primary objective. Before the popular imagination can be captured, the imagination of the people who will lead the movement must be captured. Showmanship in accomplishing this should not be eschewed: well-publicized "big-name" speakers, well-drawn posters or handbills aimed at bringing indifferent members into activity, radio time-almost anything...
These are the jobs of the organizational leaders. The task of the restless and disillusioned membership is harder. They must not follow the easy road to cynicism and negativism. They must realize that the time, not their philosophy, is wrong. And they must also come to know that the clock moves, and that the time cannot always be wrong...
...Wider membership" and better organization to meet aggression" are advantages of the U. N. over the League of Nations, the British diplomat stated, and he viewed "disagreements" among the Big Five as putting us on the "alert," as opposed to the "inert" attitude which he considered characteristic...
...Membership on the War Service Committee was also Fialkow's introduction to PBH work. Before entering Harvard he attended Cambridge Academy, and has served as chairman of the Brooks House Speakers and Entertainers Committee since September...