Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Close to a million Americans at one time in their lives joined the Communist Party, but very few talk about it now. Last week one did. He told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee a shoddy tale of party membership in the U.S. and of spy service abroad on behalf of the Kremlin. As sometimes happens, he triggered a chain reaction of disclosures about other people. Almost all had been or were still connected with the business of reporting the news, like the witness himself: Winston Burdett, 41, now a $20,000-a-year Columbia Broadcasting System radio and TV commentator...
Burdett named some two dozen persons whom he knew or strongly suspected to have been Communists. He disclosed the existence of a prewar Communist cell in the editorial offices of the Brooklyn Eagle. He confirmed the Communist Party membership of the men who controlled the American Newspaper Guild until 1941 and the New York Guild, the largest local, until...
...warmongers enjoy no confidence and no credit nowadays," Molotov continued, his words punctuated at times by applause from supporters in the public gallery. Molotov demanded Formosa and U.N. membership for Red China: "It must not be forgotten that the country in question has a population of 600 'million and that one out of every four persons living on this globe is a Chinese." He demanded that the U.S. dismantle its overseas bases and quit its embargo on trade in strategic materials with the Communist empire...
...After a three-day meeting in Columbus, Ohio, 30 leaders from the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church announced that the two denominations would join June 25, 1957. Name of the new church: the United Church of Christ. With a membership of more than 2,000,000 (1,283,000 Congregationalists, 761,000 E. & R.), the United Church will become the sixth largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. (after the Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians and Episcopalians...
...Meeting in St. Paul, delegates to the 96th annual synod of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (membership: 516,968, fifth largest of the 18 Lutheran bodies in the U.S.) pondered the current shortage of pastors (857 available for 1,211 congregations), protested that "political expediency" in Washington has held up operation of the 1953 Refugee Relief Act, re-elected the Rev. Dr. Oscar A. Benson of Minneapolis for his second four-year term as president. Hottest issue of the convention was a proposal made by the United Lutheran Church in America (membership: 2,061,004) that Augustana join with U.L.C.A...