Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swedenborgians. Meeting in their trim, light-filled church off Park Avenue on 35th Street and in their church in Brooklyn Heights, the prosperous-looking, efficient men and women of New Jerusalem heard reports of mild but encouraging growth in the U.S. and the rest of the world (total membership: 25,000). Said Convention President Franklin H. Blackmer, keying his words to the main theme of the forthcoming World Council of Churches Assembly at Evanston, 111.: "The Second Coming of the Lord is a process already going on, changing the very environment ... of all mankind...
...case, chose to ignore the warning. First the rambunctious Federation of American Scientists attacked "the dangers and the bitter fruits of a security system which is now motivated more by the risks of politics than the risks of disclosure of information." Then the more restrained American Physical Society (whose membership includes nearly all U.S. nuclear physicists) warned that the decision "will have an adverse effect upon the utilization of scientists in Government...
...Henry VI Though Winston Churchill is not strictly of noble birth, few Britons better fulfill Shakespeare's qualifications for membership in England's oldest chivalric order...
Also cited for contempt was Lawrence Baker Arguimbau, former M.I.T. professor. Arguimbau admitted membership in the Communist party itself, thus waiving privileges of the Fifty Amendment, but also refused to name associates or answer questions that might lead to identification of them. After giving his testimony to the Velde Committee, Arguimbau resigned his associate professorship at the Institute...
Bernard Deutch,. a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania and a former student at Cornell, admitted membership in the Communist Party, agreed to tell the committee of his own actions in the party, but refused because of "moral scruples," to reveal the names of any of his associates or the place of meeting of the Cornell "cell...