Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cent, and this figure hides an amazing potpourri of commuter types. Of 513 non-residents this year, about 30 per cent are "non-resident members of residential Houses"--meaning that, after "living in" for two years, they have moved out for one reason or another, retaining "courtesy membership." These students do not, of course, belong to Dudley House...
...workers in U.S. steel mills want their union (membership: 1,250,000) to push for higher wages? Yes, of course, says the United Steelworkers' President David J. McDonald, getting ready to call a strike when present contracts run out in early summer. No, says doorbell-ringing Pollster Samuel Lubell, after interviewing steelworkers in ten cities around the U.S. "Of the steelworkers interviewed," reports Lubell this week for United Feature Syndicate, "five of every six are against further wage hikes...
...union chieftains, many steelworkers see that "raising wages may mean less jobs," that higher costs in U.S. steel mills spur imports of foreign steel. Concludes Pollster Lubell: "Often it is asserted that labor leaders have little choice but to demand ever higher wages because of pressure from their own membership . . . My talks with steelworkers leave little doubt that currently the main pressures for 'more' are being generated by the union leaders and not the rank and file...
...different post, created at the request of the Lambeth Conference, consists of two secretaryships: of the Advisory Council on Missionary Strategy and the Lambeth Consultative Body. In the first, he will coordinate the missionary activities of 15 constituent self-governing churches of the Anglican Communion (total membership: 40 million). In the second, he will supervise the lines of action initiated by Lambeth Conferences during the ten-year intervals between them. In addition, he plans to make his London office (he moves in after Jan. 1) a clearinghouse for theological studies. "The thing that draws me to this is the chance...
...Daniel, going into the lions' den," cracked a Washington reporter one warm afternoon last week. The Daniel: shock-haired John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 41, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and front-running candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. The lions: the 51-man Council of Methodist Bishops (membership: 10 million), on a long-planned tour to talk with top ranking Washingtonians, including President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren, now waiting in Washington's Old Senate Office Building. Candidate Kennedy, head tucked in careful thought over each answer, was quizzed on his Roman Catholicism and how it might affect...