Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gradually, publishers realized that the practice of audited circulation would be as beneficial to them as to advertisers, and in 1914 the Audit Bureau of Circulations was launched to verify circulation claims on a basis of uniform standards. Membership was voluntary and consisted of publishers, advertisers and their agencies. The first year there were 612 members. This month, 40 years later, the roster of A.B.C. members is 3,554 (673 advertisers, 192 agencies and 2,689 publishers...
...minimum of $109 next year, a 37½-hour week, etc. Said American Newspaper Guild President Joseph F. Collis. who is also assistant managing editor of the Record and leader of the strikers: "We think we won because we came out with a better contract and a stronger membership." Disagreed Management Representative A. Dewitt Smith: "In strikes, as in wars, nobody wins." Cost to the employees: more than $650,000 in wages. Cost to the papers: more than $1,000,000 in revenue...
...spirit. When the first band, an offspring of the University's Banjo and Mandolin Club, developed a lack of clarinets, director and organizer Frederick L. Reynolds '20 wasn't long stymied. He borrowed violins from the dance orchestra to play the missing parts. The stringed additions brought the membership to 45 men. But even by 1929, when there were 60 regular players, improvisation was sometimes necessary. The late Malcolm (Mal) H. Holmes '28, beloved conductor of the band, was pressed into service on a bass drum, although his musical experience had been previously limited to the violin. Leroy Anderson...
...effort to soften the effect of the motion, Secretary Humphrey Fisher '55 offered an amendment explicitly stating that the H.L.U: would retain its independent authority and freedom of action in campus affairs. But after nearly two hours of debate, the membership over-rode the amendment and went on to vote down the original motion by a 16 to 11 margin...
H.L.U. president Philippe Villers '55 called the decision a "re-assertion of the traditional H.L.U. policy of having its own membership decide all important issues...