Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference, Ike jammed an assortment of news. Returning briefly to the problem of U.S. military defenses, he said that it was "absolutely essential" that the nation "take its own particular position in the world" and create a military establishment "suited to its own requirements." He advocated "bona fide" U.S. membership in the U.N.-affiliated International Labor Organization. Turned to partisan politics by a reporter's question, he dismissed, with a shrug and a grimace, a suggestion that the resounding defeat of Governor Allan Shivers in the recent Democratic delegate battles in Texas could be construed as a repudiation...
...reason for holding the meetings there is that the estate is officially controlled by a corporation chartered in Washington, D.C.. called "The Trustees for Harvard University," a group whose membership is the same as the Harvard Corporation...
...theocracy!' Theoretically, a theocracy is government by direct action of God; practically, theocracy is government by a priest caste . . . Advocates of the theocratic theory are well aware that the only sure way for them to gain control is through organized political action, whereby the vast majority of our membership which does not subscribe to their point of view can be controlled. This is the reason for the presence in this and other dioceses of political machines...
...Voted (389 to 297) to grant full rights of the clergy to women. Until now, women have been limited to Methodist ordination (there are currently some 350 women ministers); ministerial membership in annual conferences and assured appointments to churches have been denied them...
...nasty slash of paradox defaces this pretty picture: though membership of the American Federation of Musicians last week stood at an alltime peak of 256,000, there are fewer jobs for U.S. musicians every month...