Word: membership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first," Lewis wrote the U.M.W. membership with the familiar flourish, "your wages were low, your hours long, your labor perilous, your health disregarded, your children without opportunity, your union weak, your fellow citizens and public representatives indifferent to your wrongs." But John L., born in Lucas, Iowa, Feb. 12, 1880, a Welsh coal miner's son who quit school after the seventh grade to dig coal in underground pits, a union organizer with a shock of red hair and red eyebrows and a Shakespearian style, fought his way to the top of the U.M.W. to change all that...
Sixteen months ago, Charles de Gaulle swept grandly through France's black Africa empire-the biggest European holdings on the continent-offering self-government and membership in a new French Community. Only Sekou Toure's Guinea turned him down. De Gaulle was able to put together a Community of eleven autonomous African states, plus the island republic of Madagascar. What if they wanted independence? "You have only to ask for it," said De Gaulle...
Special Experience. His outfit, Durieux said, finds its membership in the French administration in Algeria, "and in particular, policemen and retired policemen. Above all, there were the Corsicans living in North Africa." Was the French government's Deuxieme Bureau (counterespionage) involved? "I could not comment on the possibility that individual members of the service are in sympathy with us," he said...
...Euphemian Literary Society of-little (507 students), 120-year-old Erskine College (which is most of Due West, S.C.) gave an honorary membership to onetime Erskine Man Erskine (God's Little Acre) Caldwell, who is named after Erskine's founder, Ebenezer Erskine. The honor is even rarer than a Nobel Prize in literature. Only other honorary Euphemian: Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who was elected to the society in 1868, failed because of ill health to come by and get his diploma. But nobody around Due West can now remember why Lee was so saluted...
...complicated canon than this," wrote Bishop Pike in an eleven-page letter to the clergy of his diocese. Canon 36 provides for the ordination of a minister whose previous ordination may be doubtfully authentic, or who wishes to be a minister in the Protestant Episcopal Church without losing his membership in another denomination, or (as in Hedley's case) who intends to remain a minister and function as such in his original denomination...