Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Approved, in the Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. membership in the Eisenhower-backed international atoms-for-peace agency, but added a single qualification despite State Department protests. If the international organization adopts any amendment of which the Senate disapproves, the U.S. must withdraw from membership...
...dictator of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, a key dowel in the U.S. labor movement for more than 30 years. Before his death in 1953 he had bequeathed his claw hammer to his complaisant son Maurice, who finished construction of the union by bringing the membership to 850,000. cut for himself a slot in the loftiest beams of labor leadership-vice president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., member of the executive council. Last week at 60, Carpenter Maurice Hutcheson dodged the well-aimed hammer blows of a Senate investigating committee...
...President Lazaro Cardenas (1934-40), who expropriated foreign oil holdings and launched ambitious land reforms. They must not be too far left or he will not have the support of ex-President Miguel Aleman (1946-52), who guided Mexican politics back to the middle of the road. Membership in the current Cabinet is almost essential. Three men fit this mold well enough to qualify for the slang adjective of presidenciable...
...denomination was born last week. The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in North America (membership: 251,244) approved plans to merge with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (membership: 2,809,603). The resulting 3,000,000-member body, which will officially begin its existence at a convention in Pittsburgh next May, will be known as the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Only one other major Presbyterian body remains in the U.S.-the southern Presbyterian Church of the U.S. (810,917 members...
...separate golfers from speculators, the club finally spun off a subsidiary oil company called Westla, gave one share of stock each (estimated value: $2,000) to 802 regular members, thus detached the mineral rights from club membership. The Westla spin-off is expected to drop non-oil club memberships to $6,000. Westla will open drilling bids next month from oil companies, who will ask city permission for 30 wells on the 311-acre club. If the city approves, Westla will collect at least 32% royalties; the club will get $50,000 annually for ten years. For those golfers...