Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high level. The NSA, while it represents a generally voteless segment of the population, has repeatedly requested increased tax deduction for students, and the institution of a federal scholarship program. Equality of opportunity for students of all races in American universities has constituted another successful NSA campaign. Through membership on the American Council of Education and the National Education Association, the NSA can work to implement these goals far more efficiently than any isolated student association could...
...blows for unfettered reporting through the LA.P.A. press freedom committee, which he helped to organize in 1951 and has headed ever since at the insistence of fellow members. The committee investigates and documents press-government relations throughout Latin America and wields an effective public-relations truncheon by dropping from membership all newspapers that are proved to be Communist-or fascist-influenced "or have any other totalitarian tendencies...
Study of the Law was so important to the Essenes that in each group it was pursued day and night (the membership was divided into three shifts). Government of the sect was in the hands of twelve elders and three priests, "perfect in all that is revealed of the whole Torah, to practice truth and righteousness and justice and loving devotion and to walk humbly each with his neighbor, to guard faithfulness in the land with a strong purpose and a broken spirit." The punishments they administered were severe: for speaking brusquely "so as to undermine the composure...
...structure of the early church was much like that of the Qumran Community. Both had a council of Twelve, and the membership of each was known as "the Many." The Essene Twelve were to be judges at the end of the world, a role which Jesus also gave to his twelve disciples...
Unfortunately, John Ivey will not be around to see the survey through. This week New York University announced that it had snatched him for its No. 2 job, the executive vice-presidency. To the 16 governors who head the S.R.E.B. membership, it was a blow-which was probably the surest measure of Ivey's success. Said Florida's Governor Le Roy Collins somewhat ruefully: "He is one of the top young men in the nation. He has preached the sound doctrine that the South should use the manpower and brains of the South to improve the South, that...