Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington National Chairman Butler, already worried over the Orval Faubus effect on northern Negro voters, quickly supported Gravel for his "integrity, candor and intelligence," snapped that the National Committee, which rules on its own membership, will keep Gravel in office until the 1960 convention. Louisiana's U.S. Senator Russell Long, in turn, noted pointedly that the State Committee decides who shall be called a Democrat on the ballot-a strong suggestion that Louisiana might turn thumbs down on the presidential and vice presidential candidates if the rebels do not get their...
...unable to distinguish between bargaining and giving in. Three years ago we gave in. Not now." What strengthened G.E.'s hand was the fact that in three key G.E. locals (Lynn and Pittsfield, Mass.; Schenectady, N.Y.), representing more than a third of the union's dues-paying membership, Carey could not get a strike vote. Though more than 40 other locals backed Carey, he was clearly not sure just where he stood. At the I.U.E. convention last month, he got the union's strike-vote clause changed from a required two-thirds of membership to a simple...
Beck accused Harvard's voting delegates of "lack of preparation and of good judgment" at the annual National Student Congress in the past few years. He also claimed that the Council has "misrepresented" several functions and services of the NSA, as well as the costs of membership. He thus criticized the stand taken by Andrew Warshaw '59, who felt that the resolutions of the congress were handled with a "slapdash method...
...annual cost of NSA membership runs about $150, rather than the $300 or more cited by one Student Council member. He described Harvard's practice of paying the expenses of NSA delegates as "the exception rather than the rule, contrary to the Student Council's assumption...
...overall effect of the passage of three of the four amendments is to increase the total membership of the Council from 17 to 28 members...