Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allow two-thirds of the Senators "present and voting" to end filibusters, as against the old requirement of two-thirds of the entire Senate membership...
...Lutherans, for instance, disapprove of what a special committee of their ministers defined as "the embrace of members of the opposite sexes who are not married to each other.'' But, meeting in Milwaukee last week, the Concordia College conference, attended by 50 ministers of the Missouri synod (membership: 2,150,230), tentatively opened the door to the "party. "In the literature of our synod with respect to the question of the dance," said the committee in a resolution before the conference, "we found quotations of theologians and conferences as far back as Chrysostom and the Council of Laodicea...
...anticolonialist tirades-European colonial powers had opposed setting up a U.N. commission for Africa like those already in existence for Asia, Europe and Latin America. Not until last spring, and after U.S. prompting, did the U.N. finally establish the E.G.A. headquarters in Ethiopia, oldest independent nation on the continent. Membership: six European nations, nine independent African countries, and associates from colonial and trust territories. In a continent with a bewildering array of problems and a disheartening lack of experience, the commission hopes to help raise living standards by pooling economic information and skill...
...extra missionary stream comes from the smaller fighting sects rather than the old established churches. Example: the Seventh-day Adventists, with a membership of only 291,567 in the U.S., have the most missionaries of all-2,000 men and women, including missionaries from the U.S. and other home bases, in 184 countries. And the Christian and Missionary Alliance (membership: 87,663) has 822 missionaries abroad, or twice the number supported by the Protestant Episcopal Church (membership...
Other new officers of the organization include: Emily L. Hartshorne '62, secretary; Frederic Freilicher '60, treasurer; David F. Bartlett '59, Harvard affairs chairman; Vivian H. Oppenheim '62, Radcliffe affairs chairman; John J. Coffey '61, political affairs chairman; Stanley G. Brown '60, membership chairman; and Robert E. Friedman '62, publicity chairman...