Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobel Prizewinning Scientist Irene Joliot-Curie, whose ardent fellow traveling got her kicked off France's Atomic Energy Commission in 1951, was denied membership in the American Chemical Society, which bluntly branded her "an avowed and active...
...progress report. During 1953, the Southern Baptists built themselves 631 new churches, and increased their church giving by 12.4% for an all-time high of $278,851,129. Sunday-school enrollment showed a gain of 268,072 (present total: 5,759,128), and 361,835 people were baptized. Present membership...
...Executive Director Clifford Petitt of New York City's Protestant Council warned council members about the disproportionately small number of Protestant judges in a city whose church membership is close to 30% Protestant. In Brooklyn, for instance, the ratio of Protestant judges is five out of 75, with the other judgeships divided roughly evenly between Roman Catholics and Jews. The court situation, said Petitt, is "crying for help from Protestantism," but New York's Protestants are still badly handicapped in making demands by the lack of unity among denominations. ¶ Writing in the British weekly Spectator...
Police Control? The bills worried a great many anti-Communist Japanese, including the editors of Asahi and Mainichi, the country's leading newspapers. The bulk of the Teachers Union membership, it was agreed, is not Communist; newspapers aptly call the union tancho-zuru, after a native crane with a white body and a small, red head. But action taken against the whole group would strengthen the Communists' hand. Also, warned Mainichi: "Twisted interpretation of the laws could place the nation's education system under police control...
...expense account totaled $78,986, McGinnis collected $32,250, the chief item being $20,865 for "entertaining, luncheons, dinners, etc." Kingsley's listed expenses included $2,746 for "beverages and provisions" for a penthouse on Miami's swank Ponce de Leon Hotel and $1,290 for membership and fees to the equally plush Surf Club in Miami Beach. The Norfolk Southern also paid out $7,200 for trips of officials and their guests to the Kentucky Derby...