Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seymour Peck, 38, a desk man on the Times Sunday Magazine who joined the paper in 1952, also fought shy of naming onetime Communist associates, while he admitted his own party membership from 1935 to 1949. Like Whitman, he did not claim the refuge of the Fifth Amendment to protect himself against selfincrimination. Peck, a onetime staffer of the now defunct Communist-line New York Compass, simply refused to answer, despite the subcommittee's repeated warnings that he was risking a contempt citation...
...Samuel Weissman, 46, supervisor of indexers on the Times Index, a reference aid to its files. He denied present Communist Party membership. ¶ Matilda Landsman, 37, now a Linotype operator, who had worked as a stenographer in the news and Sunday departments and as secretary to Joseph Barnes, onetime editor of the defunct New York Star...
...Mahoney, 38, a rewrite man who has worked for the New York Daily Mirror for nearly 22 years. He denied present membership in the party or that he had ever performed "any subversive act," but refused to testify whether he had ever been a Communist. Next day Hearst's Mirror fired Mahoney...
...chief backers of the White House Conference on Education. But its most important accomplishment was to make education a national conversation topic. The number of articles on school affairs appearing in large-circulation magazines has gone up from 128 in 1949 to more than 400 last year. P.T.A. membership has doubled to almost 10 million...
...time he painted Le Lorgneur, probably in 1716, Watteau was in his early 30s. Behind him lay an arduous apprenticeship to a Flemish painter in his native Valenciennes and his early struggles as a starving artist in Paris. Then two paintings of French army-camp scenes won him associate membership in the Royal Academy, and the greatest French collector of his time, Pierre Crozat, made room for Watteau in his own house...