Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stir that Nehru intended, and its purpose quickly showed through. Nehru was using the threat of resignation to beat down the moderates and right-wingers inside his Cabinet and fix India on a leftward course: more socialism at home, more flirting with Communism abroad. "Gandhi often renounced active membership in the Congress Party when he had difficulties," recalled the Free Press Journal of Bombay. "[Nehru] has been unable to conceal his impatience with India's slow progress toward the Socialist State," reported Calcutta's influential Amrita Bazar Patrika...
...ugly, long-smoldering dispute exploded last week and split Australia's brawling, sprawling Labor Party wide open. Labor Party Chief Dr. Herbert Vere Evatt, 60, openly declared war on the party's biggest single faction: the Catholic right wing, which contains almost half of Labor's membership...
...Florida States' Rights, chartered in August, claims a membership of 4,000. Said its state secretary, Ruth V. Armstrong: "I can't have my son or daughter dancing on a dance floor or swimming in a pool with somebody as black as the ace of spades and with a skull three inches thick...
...each counselor really goes.to work. There are "B Rations" (Bible leaflets) at every seat, and most of the counselors have learned by heart the rations' Bible verses. But his final job is to fill out a card about his "baby Christian," stating his name, address, occupation, age, church membership or preference. On each card there are also four categories of decision, one of which is to be checked: 1) Acceptance of Christ as Saviour and Lord; 2) Reaffirmation of Faith; 3) Assurance of Salvation; 4) Dedication of Life...
Unlike most schools with fraternities there is no enduring "most popular" or "most prestige giving" house. The fraternities fluctuate widely in popularity from year to year, and most maintain a varied membership, although there are two predominantly Jewish houses...