Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, "organized religion plays a part . . . altogether unknown elsewhere." Church membership (except in the big cities) is taken for granted, community activities center around the churches. "The Girl Scouts meet in the basement of the church, the Parent-Teachers Association in the Parish House . . . One of the local ministers opens the luncheon meeting of Rotary or the annual drive of the Community Chest . . . There exists the closest and most intimate bond between the Catholic Church and some locals of the United Automobile Workers or the United Steel Workers, between Protestant churches and some locals of the Rubber Workers, or between...
...state can only be free if society is basically a religious society." The state can favor no one religious group, but at the same time it must "sponsor, protect and favor religious life in general." This unique arrangement is no guarantee of a religion deeper than the church membership figures. "But it is a foundation-both for a religious people and for a free political order. As such it is the greatest achievement of the American political spirit, and the one on which all others rest...
Positive, Positive, Positive. Membership figures in New Thought groups are nonexistent. There are many prominent believers who do not advertise the fact, says Dr. Robert Bitzer, president of the International New Thought Alliance. But in Hollywood, where his own Church of Religious Science is located, New Thought has many celebrated friends. Singer Peggy Lee goes to a Religious Science Church in Los Angeles. Liberace, says Bitzer, owes his success to a New Thought tract, and Mae West is interested-"she's an intelligent woman...
Only an active membership will be offered to Republican volunteers, according to Watson. There are openings for clerical work, letter-writing, and manning Young Republican booths at Massachusetts county fairs, he said. Those so desiring can also work in the "Summer Whittier for Governor" campaign, or in some special aspect of the national political drives...
...students are invited to a "membership mixer" sponsored by the Harvard Zionist Society this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Harvard Student Union. There will be a brief round table discussion on the current crisis in the Middle East followed by a program of folk and social dancing...