Word: memberships
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...month. Thus, in October the Fellowship's 3,000 members each paid in 288 centavos or 2.88 pesos (72?) for the 288 enemy planes notched up by the R. A. F. that month. This totaled some $2,100 or just over ?500. By the end of November the membership was 15,000. The November score was 293 enemy planes, the take better than ?2,500. (A Hurricane or Spitfire costs about ?5,000.) By the end of December the Buenos Aires boosters expect 20,000 members. Meantime their Fellowship of the Bellows has blown into Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile...
Aside from willingness to contribute, prime requisite for F. o. B. membership is to be "a fellow being with a bellow feeling" to enjoy windy punning and complex ritual. Payment of one peso initiation fee makes the joiner a Whiff (all non-joiners are Snuffs, ritualistically defined as "infinitely worse than a cross-eyed toad with athlete's foot"). A Whiff becomes a Puff when he pays his first month's levy. A Puff becomes a Gust when, after his entry, 1,000 planes have been shot down and he has paid in ten pesos. When...
...Grebanier had become fed up with the party, tried to resign, was finally expelled instead as a "Trotskyite." Today, thanks to the Moscow-Berlin pact, he told the committee, Communist membership at Brooklyn College has "dwindled to the vanishing point...
...American Legion demanded that Brooklyn College's alleged Communists be dismissed, under a law (enacted last year) barring from civil-service employment those who advocate overthrow of the Government by force. But Investigator Windels and President Gideonse agreed that a teacher could not be dismissed merely for membership in the Communist Party, could be dismissed for "improper" political activity (e.g., classroom propaganda for Communism...
Last week Utilitarian Foshay was starting on his fourth year as paid secretary of the Salida Chamber of Commerce. The annual membership drive was under way and he was working like a beaver. Back of him were three years of success. Salida was on its way to becoming a ghost town in the early '30s. The Denver & Rio Grande Western took away its shops and offices, two mines closed down, 3,000 citizens moved away. First thing W. B. did was advertise. On the highways he set up strings of hearts bearing the admonition "Follow the Hearts to Salida...