Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under present Senate rules, a two-thirds vote of the full Senate membership is required to cut off filibusters. Humphrey & Co. propose to change the rules so that a simple (i.e., non-Southern) majority can shut off debate. New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives, who is up for re-election in 1958, and New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case found it difficult to resist. In a slow political week, they too added their names to the list of cloture sponsors...
...Fiat auto works, began to speak out plainly against Communist labor domination. Result: the Communists were ousted from dominance in Fiat's big Turin plant and scores of other factories; in the last two years the Italy-wide ratio of Communist to non-Communist union membership has decreased from 65%-35% to 50%-50%, with a 3-to-2 anti-Communist majority in plants where the U.S. is spending most of its money...
...continuing body, and that its old rules still apply. (There is no limitation on debate whatsoever on a motion to change Rule XXII, the rule which now provides for closure.) And certain intrinsic aspects of their argument, especially the fact that two-thirds of the Senate's membership holds over, lends logical support to this view, although it has never been directly tested. Yet in the case of these Southerners, at least, a basic opposition to civil rights legislation is he underlying rationale...
...Listen Pope, dean of Yale Divinity School: "There is no great religious revival in America, and probably will not be in the accepted sense . . . But there is a great revival of interest . . . Religion has a better hearing, and less open opposition . . . [But] the extension of church membership . . . should not be allowed to obscure the present state of the world . . . At this time of the greatest need, the influence of religion on human affairs appears to be indirect, and, all told, rather minimal...
...issuing of the joint committee findings follows years of deep questioning of the whole "bicker" system--through which sophomores are hastily picked for membership in the 17 plush undergraduate eating clubs that line Prospect Street. The alumni-controlled club system, with its strong hold on undergraduate life, maintained by a monopoly over upperclass social and dining facilities, has been criticized as an island of outside interference within the University...