Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...veteran of the Civil War,* at 17 enlisted (October 1864) as a drummer in the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, traveled with Union occupation forces through Tennessee but saw no action; of lung congestion; in Duluth. Chipper, cigar-smoking Woolson was senior vice commander of the once influential (peak membership in 1890: 408,489) Grand Army of the Republic, which held its last encampment...
...champion of high, rigid farm supports. Although he has risen in the estimate of his Southern Senate colleagues (Georgia's Walter George offered to campaign for him in 1954), other Southerners recall vividly-and bitterly-his strident civil-rights performance at the 1948 convention. Humphrey's charter membership in Americans for Democratic Action is today something less than a national political asset. Nonetheless, longtime Stevensonian Humphrey, 45, ranks high in the Stevenson camp...
Died. Levi Hollingsworth Wood, 82, slim, bushy-browed Manhattan lawyer and Quaker humanitarian, a founder (1910) and president (1915-41) of the National Urban League (membership: 50,000), which supports Negro rights in housing and employment, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Friends Service Committee; in Mount Kisco...
...Roman Catholic Church in Berlin has published statistics showing that Communist antireligious propaganda is paying off in Germany's East zone. Candidates for the priesthood number only 33%-about half the normal expectation. Church membership "leakage" increased from 3,733 in 1948 to almost 10,000 last year...
When N.Y.U. Associate Professor of English Edwin Burgum not only refused to answer questions on his alleged party membership before a Senate subcommittee but also refused to talk to a committee of his own colleagues, Heald suspended him as "unfit to continue in a position of educational trust...