Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City was just the place for Hague. Its citizens were mostly immigrants who had in common only their bewilderment at the strange ways of American democracy and their Old-World respect for the authoritarian hand of the state. Autocratic Frank Hague rose from constable to city hall custodian to membership on the Street and Water Board to city commissioner. In 1917 Hague took over as mayor, and two years later he struck for state power by successfully backing Edward I. Edwards for governor of New Jersey. By 1922, when he was elected Democratic national committeeman, Hague was recognized as being...
...Tragic Mistake." Most prominent of the Times witnesses was Benjamin Fine, 50, education editor since 1941 and recipient of seven honorary degrees. Fine admitted to the "tragic mistake" of party membership for about a year in 1935-36 while he was a graduate student at Columbia University's Teachers College. He volunteered that his advice to young people today would be to "keep away from anyone who talks the Communist line to you on the campus." Fine's appearance as a witness was the only clue to why the subcommittee two days earlier had called his brother, David...
...president of the new club, W. Louis Patton '57, yesterday clarified a misunderstanding about the sponsorship of the address, and affirmed that the HYDC is presenting it. The "Kefauver for President" Club, however, will begin membership solicitation immediately following the speech, he added...
...Kefauver for President" Club, the second such College organization formed to support a Democratic hopeful, after Students for Stevenson, plans to open its membership drive immediately after Kefauver speech...
...Committee, whose membership includes John Fe. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology and Thoman H. Weller, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health, winners of the 1954 Nobel Prize for their work in growing the polio virus, did not give the vaccine its unqualified support. The report, read to the press last night by Samuel B. Kirkwood, clinical professor of Maternal Health and State Public Health Commissioner, said "the vaccine is very definitely in the developmental stage," and that it might be possible "in rare instances" for live virus in the vaccine to induce the disease...