Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council was motivated by reports of vote buying in behalf of Thomas Stalker '58, the presidential candidate supported by current HYRC president Donald P. Hodel '57. A story in yesterday's CRIMSON brought the matter into the open, when it reported that a freshman had been offered a free membership card to vote for Stalker...
...other charges were made at last night's Council meeting by Dennis Barber '60, president of the Yardling. He plans to tell his full story in Wednesday's Yardling. Last night Barber said that he had been offered a $40 advertisement for the freshman paper and a free membership card for himself if he would support Stalker in the forthcoming election...
...Harvard student said that Stalker had asked for his vote as a personal favor. The student protested because of his Democratic beliefs, but Stalker assured him that it would be all right since his name would be taken off the HYRC's membership list which was to be sent to Dean Watson's office after the election...
Others reported that they had been offered free membership cards or beer if they would vote for Stalker. Participants at the Student Council's well-attended meeting also accused the Stalker faction of breaking faith with the club's principles and with its charter, given by the state committee...
...unsolicited recipients of this largesse came howls of dismay. Cried Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley: "We don't want them here. Why don't they go to Moscow?" His feelings were echoed by Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers, whose 120,000 membership is more than one-third Negro: "The Communist Party is about to go out of business. There's no place for it in Chicago or any other place in America." And from Manhattan's Dave Dubinsky, who had been individually applauded by the Communists in convention, came the hardest...