Word: membership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Should the press, as the commission suggested, "engage in vigorous mutual criticism?" No, answered Columnist Walter Lippmann, admitting to membership in the country-club school of newspapering, in which club members do not discuss each other aloud. Wrote Lippmann: "For there is a fellowship among newspapermen as there is in other crafts and professions. They have to see each other . . . work together. ... I may say that I have tried [such criticism] and have had it tried on me, and my conclusion is that the hard feelings it causes are out of all proportion to the public benefits it causes...
...some sign or hope of moral rebirth. As Paul Hutchinson reported after his world tour (LIFE, March 10), people in every nation have the same "new longing to explore the possibilities of a spiritual interpretation of reality," all other interpretations having yielded such barren fruit. In the U.S., church membership (72 million) is at an alltime high. Not for decades has religion enjoyed so much friendly curiosity...
...standards to be applied for disloyalty tests include such obvious items as sabotage, espionage, treason, or advocacy of revolution. The gimmick is in the specification designed to catch the Communists: "Membership in, affiliation with or sympathetic association with any foreign or domestic organization . . . designated by the Attorney General as totalitarian, fascist, communist or subversive...
Just who was more surprised was not clear. In eleven bitter months the local lost almost half its membership to an independent union. A back-to-work movement had put 6,000 men at A-C's benches (more than half the normal strength) before the strike ended. Workers lost an estimated $20 million in wages. The company lost $65 million in production.* The union paid out more than $100,000 in strike benefits...
Underlying the economic issues (the union first demanded a 30?-an-hour increase, maintenance of membership and more control over grievance machinery) was the question of Communist domination in Local...