Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Individuals, purged by congressional "inquisitions," are condemned, no matter what they answer to the questions fired at them. If a witness were to admit to having once belonged to the Communist Party, he is immediately a social outcast, no matter what the reasons for his membership, or his severance, unless, of course, he turns into a Louis Budenz and "rats" on others who are members of the party. In the latter situation, our erstwhile patriot becomes a national hero. If our witness invokes the Fifth Amendment, he is then automatically found guilty-by his silence ... If he claims...
...pride touched bottom. The Wafd never recovered from the charge of being a "tool of the British" and became the most corrupt of all parties. A Premier who was about to propose declaring war on the Axis was shot dead in the Senate Chamber. The Moslem Brotherhood grew to membership of 2,000,000 with secret cells (called families) and a terrorist organization. But none was so humiliated and infuriated by the Abdin Palace incident as Gamal Nasser and his proud young friends. At the Officers' Club in Cairo a committee was formed, the first step in the Free...
...Noted a three-year growth in Episcopal Church membership from...
Last week, at its annual conference in the seaside town of Southport, Britain's giant Trades Union Congress (membership: 8,000,000) faced the issue of inflation head on. Its president, Charlie Geddes lashed out at Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler for slashing taxes before the last election (TIME, May 2), but devoted most of his speech to an eloquent plea for restraint. "If we exploit full employment," he warned, "our children may be exploited by unemployment ... If we are pricing ourselves out of the export market, we are pricing ourselves out of a job?and that...
PROXY FIGHT for control of Libby, McNeill & Libby was won by the old management, hands down. Biggest help came from the SEC. In an unusual move, it barred the votes of the independent stockholders group because of "false and misleading statements" and because it did not fully disclose its membership; thus the Libby management's nine-director slate was elected without contest. Meanwhile, the independents filed an appeal to have the ruling set aside...