Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Membership figures of the two societies according to Hatcher, indicate that Stevenson has a "definite edge" in the college. "Students for Stevenson" consists of 250 members, while the Eisenhower organization only numbers...
However, Perlstein specifically denied five of the nine charges levied against the HSMR. These charges were mostly of a technical nature, involving such matters as having a copy of the constitution in the organization's office; and informing the full membership of a meeting...
...seem designed to fit neatly within the currently-accepted range of alternatives and to avoid any issues that might be too unorthodox politically. Thus he says virtually nothing about the segregation problem, and gives no definite idea of whether he, as President, would recognize Communist China or support its membership in the United Nations. Similarly, his views on "Medicine and Public Policy" stress the great need for improved service but fail even to consider the advantages or disadvantages that socialized medicine might have for the United States...
...last words marked a rededication of the China Club. Since the Communist invasion, the members have pressed for financial help for more than 4,000 Chinese students in the U.S., and for mass relief and resettlement of refugees in Hong Kong and Formosa. Membership in the club is working with the state Grange and the congressional delegation to sponsor a trip to Formosa by a group of Washington State farmers...
Convinced by uncontested evidence of his Communist Party membership, a Denver jury two months ago decided that Maurice E. Travis, ex-secretary-treasurer of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, had perjured himself by filing the non-Communist affidavits required of union leaders by the Taft-Hartley Act. Last week, up for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Jean S. Breitenstein, Travis, 45, drew eight years in prison and an $8,000 fine-the heaviest punishment yet inflicted for perjury on a Taft-Hartley affidavit. Said Communist Travis: "I have been a radical, a nonconformist all my adultlife...