Word: memberships
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Surprisingly, Donovan's nomination seemed to please leaders in business and labor, as well as the unions' staunchest enemy, the National Right to Work Committee, which seeks to eliminate labor contracts that require union membership as a condition of employment. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Teamsters Union had lobbied hard for another candidate for the job, former National Labor Relations Board Chairman Betty Southard Murphy, but leaders of both decided that Donovan was acceptable. A New Jersey union negotiator, who has observed Donovan's smooth dealings over the years with the Teamsters and other unions...
...operator, he held a series of managerial jobs in the Leningrad region, until he began a spectacular rise to power in the late 1930s. Escaping the Great Purge that dispatched millions of others to Stalin's Gulag, he became mayor of Leningrad. By 1939 he had ascended to membership in the ruling Central Committee...
...disarray; it is seemingly unable to restrain the workers. Its discipline is poor and its morale worse. According to one report, local party groups have been attempting to reorganize without the blessing of the central committee. Astonishingly, an estimated 700,000 Communists, about a fourth of the party membership, have joined Solidarity...
Those who would change the "mission" of the board would probably first have to change its membership, observers said yesterday. And for some, like Sullivan, that job could be difficult, since the city charter prohibits elected officials from discussing appointments with the city manager...
Jackson declined to predict whether the school's program chairmen and Graham T. Allison Jr. '62, dean of the school--who must approve the request--would favour student membership. "I wouldn't be suprised if they did so and I don't think many individuals on the committee would be disappointed if they did so." he said...