Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most observers agree that this country, by accepting the 16-nation membership "package" that included five Soviet satellites, has endorsed the principle of universality of UN membership. This was the principle that the League of Nations suicidally repudiated, and the founders of the UN took it as a basic assumption back in 1945. During the past ten years, the U.S. Government has been fighting a rearguard action against universality as applied to Red China. The United States' gradual defeat seems much less discouraging than the realization that it has been in the wrong all along...
with their entire membership. "We're going in lock, stock and barrel," bristled Vice President James R. (for Riddle) Hoffa, whose growingly visible power within his union suggests an undercover undercutting of Teamster Boss Dave Beck...
...this uncommitted, neutralist bloc, Khrushchev and Bulganin offered a new message: You don't have to apply for membership in our club; we have already enrolled you and ask no dues. Want fac tories? We will help build them. Have you opponents? We will hate them...
...under Kruglov). Having swelled the ranks of slave labor by several millions, Serov was a natural for the MVD. He was made Kruglov's deputy, got a third Order of Lenin for whipping his slaves into completing the Volga-Don canal. But after Stalin's death, his membership in MVD and not in MGB probably saved his life. The Beria liquidation process carried off the entire top level of the security forces. No one (outside the Kremlin) knows who actually carried out this liquidation, but two days after Aba-kumov's execution, Serov got the Red Banner...
...Prosperity-in-Hollywood note: as a result of increased TV film production, the Screen Actors' Guild has had the greatest rise in membership in its history: from 8,370 in 1954 to 9,832 this year, an increase of almost 20%. ¶ While the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. cracked down on "a rising tide of moral laxity in movies," and called for a revitalization of the aims and purposes of the National Legion of Decency, the Motion Picture Association vigorously protested to Congress that movie censorship had "seriously eroded" the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression...