sentences:  Waldo Frank was elected the first president of the new organization.The governing Executive Council elected by the first Congress included Frank, Freeman, Trachtenberg, Michael Gold, Granville Hicks, Malcolm Cowley, Josephine Herbst, Albert Maltz, Kenneth Burke, Harold Clurman, Hart, Josephson, Lawson, Scheider, Seaver, Genevieve Taggard and Alfred Kreymborg.The League of American Writers was a dues based organization, with annual dues set at $5 per year, payable in advance on January 1 of each year.