Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leopold Stokowski, pale-maned maestro, since 1937 the great & good friend of Greta Garbo, was reported making nightly long-distance calls to Gloria Vanderbilt di Cicco, who just inherited $4,500,000. "Friends" said that she would join him in Mexico as soon as her Reno decree comes through. Gloria and the maestro maintained a Garbo-like silence...
Only those whose 17th birthday falls between October 1, 1944 and August 31, 1945 are eligible. Cuts will be excused, Perkins commented, "I should not advise anybody already in Harvard College to leave at this time to join the ASTRP . . . . It would only break up his Harvard education to start a new one." Anyone desiring further information is asked to contact Perkins through the Lowell House Secretary...
...this sour-graping, he was soundly whacked. The Republican New York Herald Tribune growled that his criticism "is a feeble reason for his failure to join the framers of the charter." The conservative Wall Street Journal chimed in: "Mr. Mosher says the statement of principles is premature. We do not agree...
...long as the N.A.M. and its approximate 12,500 businessmen withheld its support of the charter, its effectiveness was hobbled. But Johnston, Murray et al. have a sound reason for hoping that N.A.M., at least, will soon stop sulking and join them. It is the same reason that induced them to put their heads together. Unless business and labor resolve their quarrels, they are keenly aware that the Federal Government might step in with controls which would strait-jacket both...
...Northern railroads refused to join with southern railroads in reducing through rates on shipments from the South to the North and West...