Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that tends to unite the different clubs. They fear that a super-organization will devour individual groups, and they decline to take a stand on an issue, like the Bricker Amendment, which divides the Republican Party nationally. The Young Republicans say that they "serve two masters" already--the local membership and the National Party--and they do not want to add a third...
...refute this, but Lake said, "Sorry, boys, time to go," and left before debate began. The dominant group at this meeting was the "independent" faction which felt it could not fit into the official "Conservative" or "Liberal" categories. By the following Fall it was possible to count the total membership of each party on one hand. Soon even a hand was unnecessary--the Athenacum didn't die, it merely disappeared...
...added burden on last year's budget was a sum of $8000 for three years' back taxes on membership fees. In previous years, the Coop had claimed that the fees were an untaxable "contribution to capital," not to be considered as income. This year, the directors decided to avoid counsels' fees and interest and pay what the government demanded...
...Membership in six major U.S. religious groups: Protestant, 57,124,142; Roman Catholic, 32,403,332; Jewish, 5,500,000; Eastern Orthodox, 2,024,219; Old Catholic and Polish National Catholic, 367,918; Buddhist...
Total church membership, for what it may be worth, is now equal to 60.3% of the population of the continental U.S.-a gain of 2.8% for 1954. Protestant increase: 2.3%. Roman Catholic increase: 2.9%. Population increase...