Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Rock, the Arkansas Supreme Court upheld city ordinances requiring the state branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as a corporation, to produce its records of membership and contributions. The 5-2 decision ignored a U.S. Supreme Court finding that protected the N.A.A.C.P. in a similar case in Alabama, and slapped down as unwarranted the N.A.A.C.P.'s contention that public disclosure of records might lead to "harassment, economic reprisals and even bodily harm...
...crisis lies in the fact that automation and technological breakthroughs have sharply reduced the ranks of blue-collar (i.e., usually hourly paid) workers, who make up 85% of the U.S. union membership. But in the total U.S. working force, the blue-collars were outnumbered by white-collar workers (25 million to 25.5 million) by 1957, and the trend was accelerated by the recession. Unions have had comparatively little success in recruiting the new army of technical and service workers. If it does not recruit them, says Kassalow, "organized labor would be lucky to maintain its present membership...
Jail Training. The other Communist Party in Iraq works among the Arab majority and does very well. It put on last week's violent welcome for Rountree. Its membership is estimated at 7,000, including 5,000 released from Iraqi jails after last July's revolution. (Nuri as-Said's jails proved a fine recruiting and indoctrinating center.) Key figure in this organization is a shadowy, fiftyish figure known chiefly by the front name Abdul Aziz Sherif. Fleeing Iraq when the old regime tried to arrest him in 1950, he visited Moscow, Bucharest and then Sofia, where...
...prospect of the thug-ridden Teamsters' infiltrating the nation's police was not entirely preposterous. In New York City, first target for the Teamsters, Police Commissioner Stephen Kennedy said, "Don't underestimate this thing." The Teamsters claim a secret New York membership of 3,000; other authorities say that 300 is more like...
...Pius XII's 1952 consistory: instead, the Pope made him in 1954 Archbishop of Milan, Italy's largest diocese. Here, working his usual 18 hours a day, Montini has modernized the archdiocese and successfully challenged the biggest guns that the Communists can muster. Membership in Milan's Red unions has declined notably since his arrival...