Word: membership
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...During the summer it started to raise $10,000,000 for Dry propaganda. Its advisory committee was then known to include such believers in Prohibition as Chainstoreman James Cash Penney, National Grange Master Louis John Taber, Authors Zane Grey and Zona Gale. Last week the organization announced a total membership of more than 2,000 businessmen scattered over 46 states. Its program had been endorsed by Chain Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett. Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times, Publisher William Hutchinson Cowles of the Spokane Spokesman-Review...
...rumored, because of his alleged "Right'' tendencies. Always he has managed to hang on, because of his extreme popularity with Moscow crowds. He was ousted last week, not only from the presidency of the Union Council and of the Council of Labor & Defense, but also from his membership in the powerful Political Bureau of the Party. Succeeding him in both posts is Vyacheslav Molotov (real name Scriabine), a squarejawed, pince-nezzed gentleman who looks not unlike the late great Theodore Roosevelt, is chiefly notable as an able newspaperman. In 1911, just out of prison, he helped found Pravda...
What conservative Republican Senators feared most was that the Senate, debating these nominations, would open a general attack upon President Hoover and his Administration's mild attitude toward water power regulation. The make-up of the new Commission became an all-important issue because its membership would determine long-range policies for dealing with the hydroelectric industry. Chief target of attack by insurgent Senators on the old Power Commission has been Frank C. Bonner, its executive secretary. He was accused of "inefficiency," of favoring license-seeking private power companies. Last week Montana's Senator Wheeler unsuccessfully tried...
Dunster House is less jingoistic in its offence. The chief objection is that some members of tire house already presuppose that membership there entities them to a superior attitude. Outsiders protest that an otherwise ordinary student imagines himself a member of a social uppercuts through his habitant in Dunster House. Members of the house will admit that this is a characteristic not lacking in certain other members. Those who are more self critical will admit that it is present to a small degree in themselves. There has been no conscious attempt from within, either by the students at large...
...last minute a hitch in Mr. Doak's appointment developed. James John Davis, "for sentimental reasons," had wished to terminate his ten years of Cabinet membership simultaneously with assuming his position in the Senate. When it became known that he would not be seated on the Senate's opening day, his resignation became momentarily ineffective, he still retained his secretariat. Mr. Doak was not sworn in as a recess appointee. Meantime, Messrs. Doak and Davis had gone through preliminary ceremonies for the newsreels in which the retiring official had presented his successor to the successor's wife...