Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During Hastie's two years in office, there was considerable expansion in the Brooks House program. Mental hospital and prison programs were inaugurated and enlarged, and a Radcliffe volunteer program was brought into the house. Membership was increased to an all-time high of over 500 members and is expected to increase to 850 before the close of the year...
...constitutionally competent for the General Court to enact a law for the discharge of any professor, instructor or teacher at any college, university, teacher's college, or public or private school in the Commonwealth who refuses... to answer questions pertinent to his past or present membership in the Communist Party...
With a clumsiness to bring guffaws from a third-rate union negotiator, the usually adroit Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov pared down his old Dumbarton Oaks request for U.N. membership for all 16 Soviet republics. "[Russia] would be satisfied," said he, "with the admission of three, or at least two." Good-naturedly, the Westerners agreed to help add two Red birds, Byelorussia and the Ukraine, to the nest. On the very evening that the eagles had their frank talk about the small birds, even before the blueprint for the U.N. had been agreed upon, disillusion began...
...Southern Baptist Convention (membership: 8,000,000) announced a "multimilliondollar" expansion program in radio-TV to reach 65 million unchurched people. Projects: extension of The Baptist Hour radio program to five new metropolitan areas, including New York City; a series of half-hour color-television programs; distribution of "pretested scripts" for live local TV programs to 30,000 Southern Baptist churches; construction of a $200,000 Radio-Television City at Fort Worth...
...bill specifies that any teacher at any college or school in the Commonwealth who refuses "for any reason whatsoever. . . to answer questions pertinent to his past or present membership in the Communist Party shall forthwith be discharged...