Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even agreed tentatively to a curb on the powers of its executive committee, the editorial went on to say that the ''amazing thing" was that the "logical and workable solution" of the remaining difficulties was "completely tossed out of the window." This proposal was to set up joint subcommittees to settle the jurisdictional claims of rival C. I. O. & A. F. of L. unions, subsequently allowing the original C. I. 0. unions to return to A. F. of L. as a group. "Such an approach, it seems to us. could not have been stigmatized by any right thinking...
...mild peace terms" being offered by Dr. Trautmann were then released at Tokyo. Japan asks China to pay the cost of the war; she asks the Chinese Government to repudiate Communism and accept Japanese advisers; China is then to recognize Manchukuo and collaborate economically with Japan in joint air and rail services and other projects. Latest reports were that Chiang had twice refused the Japanese proposals, but that Trautmann was going to call with them again...
...appearance of one of the packages, telegraphed frantically to Leipzig. The publishers, equally frantic, located the only other copy in Europe, telephotoed it to Berlin, whence it was transmitted by radio facsimile to the U. S. Relieved Koussevitzky hired transcribers, got the parts copied just in time for its joint performance by the Boston Symphony and the Helsinki University Chorus, making its U. S. debut...
...Washington, New York's voluble Senator Royal S. Copeland had been sitting for days as chairman of the Senate Joint Maritime Committee considering last month's Maritime Commission report. That 17-page document by Joseph Patrick Kennedy bluntly declared: "Labor conditions in the American Merchant Marine are deplorable. . . . The employer, for his part, has fostered long hours, low wages and cramped quarters. The employe, meanwhile, has abused his employment in a manner that would not be tolerated in any other industry...
...Dewey's Tammany targets expected that his campaign speeches would be forgotten after his resounding victory at the polls last month, they were soon disillusioned. Day after election, an organization christened as the "Joint Committee on the County Clerk" wrote Democratic Governor Herbert H. Lehman suggesting that if Mr. Marinelli was all that Mr. Dewey explicitly said he was, he was not fit to hold office even until January i. Democrat Lehman, often accused of an opportunistic friendliness for Tammany, asked Mr. Marinelli to answer the charges within a week. Shunning reporters both at his slum offices...