Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lufthansa-announced plans to integrate their schedules, maintenance and foreign-sales organizations under the name "Air Union." And in a West German poll, only 37% of the citizens questioned by the Gallup-like "EMNID" Institute were anxious to see Germany remain a sovereign state; the solid majority (52%) favored membership in a European union...
...recent weeks Iraqi Communists have used their virtually unchallenged control of the country's press and radio to push for their next objective: membership in Premier Karim Kassem's Cabinet. Last fortnight mild-spoken General Kassem replied with characteristic obliqueness: "I do not encourage parties and party life at present." The Reds continued to praise Kassem as "our savior leader," kept up their insistent demands for office. But last week the left-wing National Democrats, the only political party with open representation in the Cabinet, and a party that has often worked in the past with the Communists...
...Membership in the Commission on the Rights, Liberties, and Responsibilities of the American Indian is the only time-consuming activity Professor Schlesinger has allowed himself. This commission was established by the Fund for the Republic after Congress in 1953 resolved to abolish all Indian reservations as soon as possible. The commission's job is to visit the Indians and see if they are ready to be integrated into society. This work naturally takes the professor away from Cambridge part of the time...
...Goldsborough and accepted historic contempt fines of $2,130,000 against his United Mine Workers union and himself, the same old thunderer who had led his coal miners from economic prostration in the Depression to a $24.25 daily basic wage and the fattest welfare benefits in labor history (with membership down from a high point of 600,000 in the late '30s to 500,000 today...
...work load was shouldered by officers and a few other dedicated individuals; important committee positions and minor chores were frequently left to the same people. While the caliber of membership was raised by appointed members, debate was often uninspired and based on little or no discussion with the students being "represented." Often the end of the meeting found less than a quorum present...