Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Einhorn, now a public-relations man for the Communist Polish embassy, blandly replied on the stand that he had merely suggested sending Burdett to Finland as an "objective" reporter for the Communist New Masses or Daily Worker. He refused, under the Fifth Amendment, to answer questions about past party membership...
...York Times. By chance, Grutzner was presented on a CBS Omnibus TV program as a typical Times reporter. Burdett named him as a member of the prewar Brooklyn Eagle Communist unit. Times executives, tipped off to Grutzner's Communist background, questioned Grutzner in May. He quickly admitted party membership from 1937 to 1940. He had been recruited by Nat Einhorn, he testified, over a cup of coffee. "I considered it a closed chapter," said Grutzner, explaining his previous silence. "I just forgot about...
...withdrawal threat caused Kingmaker Ringley no pain. The Ardery group's action still faces ratification by the rank and file of the Forty and Eight. Jim Ringley figures that the membership will repudiate its leaders. If he is right, that will be the end of Ardery as any sort of a force in Legion politics...
Under PHS, on the other hand, doctors can expect rotation of duty every couple of years. Another attraction: since PHS is a uniformed service, membership makes the doctors draftproof. There will be no drastic reshuffling of personnel. The bureau's medical service had been going downhill so long that half its doctors were PHS men on loan; the other half now simply don PHS uniforms. But from the PHS manpower pool will come an immediate increase of 50% in doctors assigned, making a total...
This week Confidential's latest issue was on its way to newsstands all over the U.S. ("Loaded with sizzling exclusives"), and the magazine trumpeted its success: "Over 4,000,000 and going up." Like everything about the magazine, the circulation claim was excessive. Confidential has applied for membership in the Audit Bureau of Circulations; if accepted, it will come in with a circulation of about 2,230,000, its average for the first six months of 1955. But its newsstand growth has been so fast (only 30,000 readers subscribe by mail) that Confidential expects to reach its circulation...