Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chairman Willi Richter, 64, keynoted: "Owning a radio or TV set or refrigerator or washing machine is today no longer a luxury. It merely corresponds to the level of our civilization." His federation, which has seen its membership fall from 40% of Germany's labor force to about 33% in the last decade, this year was making an easygoing pitch for shorter working hours. But when pink-cheeked Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard appeared at the opening session and voiced a fervent appeal for longer, not shorter, hours, the delegates dutifully applauded and dropped the idea of a resolution...
...Cubans did not bar Dubois from the country. They just threatened to cut off his food. At the suggestion of a Havana radio commentator, the National Federation of Gastronomic Workers, whose membership includes cooks, waiters, barkeeps and hotel staffs, voted to deny Dubois their services "because of his attitude as spy, divisive agent and sworn enemy of the Cuban revolution." Snapped Dubois: "If they want war, I'll give them...
Elections. Secret elections, protected by poll watchers and ballot-count watchers, are required every three years for local union officers, every five years for national officers, by secret ballot among membership or at a convention composed of delegates chosen by secret ballot...
Through the years, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has leaned precariously backward to stay on good terms with Red China, to profess mutual belief in the five peaceful principles, and to sponsor Communist China's membership in the U.N. But last week in India it was becoming increasingly clear that Peking's Communists just will not be friends...
...Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, but not Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell (though he is an Oxford man); Press Lords Kemsley and Astor, but not Beaverbrook (no college). In its correspondence columns the Establishment Chronicle approvingly published the letter of an M.P. aspiring to membership in the Establishment: "Sir, I am the brother of a Lord, I have married an Honourable ... I shoot and fish well. I have a booming voice and am very tall. I was a very good soldier. I am pro-hanging. I hate Nasser. I love the Prime Minister...