Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight to knock the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People out of business in Dixie, one of the hardest punches was a $100,000 contempt-of-court fine levied in 1956 against the Alabama N.A.A.C.P. Offense: refusing to obey a court order to hand over membership lists as evidence in the state government's still pending suit to bar the N.A.A.C.P. from operating in Alabama. Turning over the lists, protested the N.A.A.C.P., would expose members to harassment...
More important to the N.A.A.C.P. than the $100,000 was the decision's firmness in blocking, not just in Alabama but in all Southern states, all attempts to enfeeble the N.A.A.C.P. by forcing it to hand over its membership rolls...
Hoffa's fisty proposal: a conference, to be held next month, of leaders of some 50 transportation unions, whose membership runs to 3.5 million. His aim: confederation of transport workers who cover not only trucking, but also the waterfront, the air, the railroads and even the underground. Such a powerhouse group, if organized in the Hoffa manner, would be a serious threat to George Meany's A.F.L.-C.I.O., and would create a union monopoly that could conceivably pull the switch on the U.S. economy at the whim of James Riddle Hoffa...
...Time, Joe." Jimmy announced the plan after meeting with two strongmen in the transport business: Joe Curran, 52, lantern-jawed, battle-scarred boss of the seamen's National Maritime Union (membership: 40,000), and Captain (tugboat) William Bradley, 55, paunchy president of the evil-smelling International Longshoremen's Association (membership: 52,000), which was thrown out of the A.F.L. five years ago. The three men kicked off the master plan by signing a "conference" pact for the purpose of "discussing and settling jurisdictional disputes, matters of mutual concern and matters affecting progress and stability in the transportation industry...
Delegates heard reports that Adventist membership at the present is 1,102,910, having doubled in the past ten years (up from 75,000 at the beginning of the century). Proportionately, the Adventists also make the biggest financial contributions to their church-more than $225 million in the past four years. To the Cleveland conference, delegates brought $1,260,500 in cash and checks for missionary work, used a Brink's truck with gun-toting guards to haul it off safely...