Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anitsa Sheulic's prayer was read at the opening of the American Red Cross's 1938 convention. Last week it was still timely. As the Red Cross, in the 75th anniversary of its founding, got its annual Roll Call for membership well under way. it still found plenty to do in the world...
...businessmen have done very well in the twelve-month just past. They took in $1,800,249, spent $1,697,376, had $546,504 in cash on hand Aug. 31. Their reported, dues-paying membership was up 383,267 to 4,006,354. Outside analysts always take union totals on suspicion, generally deflate the Federation's official figure by at least 1,000,000 to get at the actual, paid-up membership. But the most significant story of A. F. of L., 1939 was not in totals claimed or actual. It was where those reported gains were made...
Core of the Federation has always been its construction unions. Now the A. F. of L. membership base is shifting and widening. Biggest gainer-and biggest union in the Federation-is Dan Tobin's Teamsters, up 40,800 to 350,000. Coming up fast are the butchers, laundry workers, operating engineers, retail clerks, hatters. Tough, clever George E. Browne's stagehands (up 14,200 to 42,000) lost their fight to hog all theatrical performers (TIME, Aug. 21) but they have just won another and vital struggle to keep A. F. of L. supreme in Hollywood studios, downing...
Members of the Coop will receive dividends of 8 per cent on charge purchases and 10 per cent on cash purchases today, on presentation of their last year's membership cards. The dividend was voted by the board of directors at their annual meeting on Wednesday, October...
Pally, hands-&-knees Uncle Don has a club in which not only Sistie & Buzzie Dall but Shirley Temple are members, and full membership is earned by sending in for tokens of every product Uncle Don plugs. One season he plugged 14, and full-fledged members eventually cost their parents a pretty penny. But parents tolerate him because he inveighs against such social errors as nail biting, gulping, temper, socking, preaches a series of corrective little stories involving two hypothetical and unruly tikes named Willapuss-Wallapuss and Suzan-Beduzin. Somehow all this is as beguiling to children as bubblegum...