Word: joint
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...feed the people who are hungry!" Public and Press were making themselves heard in a like vein. Besides, Administration leaders in Congress threatened not to allow the customary two-weeks adjournment for Christmas and New Year's if the relief bills were not passed. Congress finally listened. Result: Joint conferees compromised on a $45,000,000 drought-relief bill in which the word "food"' was dropped and the phrase "other such purposes incident to crop production . . ." substituted. Both chambers passed the measure. Sentiment in the Senate over its unemployment-relief amendments also changed...
...craves companionship. Marshal (later dictator) Pilsudski, a stalwart, used to be able to bend silver rubles with his mighty fingers, to crack nuts in his hairy fist Nuncio Ratti could not duplicate those feats. His hands were, and are, a scholar's soft ones. ' Joint diversion of the Marshal and the Nuncio was chess, at which both are adept. The bold Pole favored vigorous attack. The astute Italian shifted his play between defense and attack. The Marshal won sufficiently often not to resent his opponent's superior intellect. Pope Pius XI has all the distinctive attributes...
...Paris the gold reserve of the Bank of France swelled to the largest total in history, and circulation of French banknotes backed by this gold also enlarged to the maximum volume for all time: 75,950,000,000 francs. With France and the U. S. continuing their joint dominance of three-fifths of the world's monetary gold, attention riveted upon the strange aquatic behavior of Governor Montagu Collett Norman of the Bank of England. Mr. Norman (with his valet) and the Bank of England's recently acquired U. S. Economist Oliver Sprague (with his valet) boarded...
Missouri kept Oklahoma out of a joint claim with Kansas to the Big Six championship by holding them to a scoreless...
...unexpected of young sons of rich men (TIME, Sept. 19, 1927). Last month he undertook a role apparently as strange as his others, but easily explainable. The role: aviation colyumist for the Newark Free Press. The explanation: Roger Kahn is an able flyer. And Publisher John Barry Ryan Jr., joint founder of the new Free Press (TIME, July 14) is his brother-in-law, husband of the former Margaret Dorothy Kahn...