Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perhaps 400 planes. Part of his forces are De Gaullist Free French under General Georges Catroux, who opened hostilities by proclaiming independence for Syria and Lebanon and then sent his men into Djebel Druse, home of the rough & tough Druses, who hate the Vichy French and are expected to join the Allies...
Next week the two Washington columnists who have most consistently plugged all-out aid to Britain-the youthful, talented team, Joe Alsop and Bob Kintner-plan to go still further out. Short, dapper Bachelor Joe Alsop, 30, distant cousin of President Roosevelt, will join Naval Intelligence. Boyish Bob Kintner, 31, married to Broadway Producer Jean Rodney, will "very soon" join Army Intelligence. Their column ("The Capital Parade"; 74papers) will be discontinued June...
...reputed 50 million by shrewd investments, became the biggest individual owner of railroad stock in the country. With the gradual acquisition of large blocks of stock in Great Northern, Southern Pacific, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, Western Pacific, he came into a control that enabled him to join the roads in a vast trunk system sprawling from Chicago to California. A lifelong yachtsman who had girdled the world under canvas, he once sailed his yacht Aloha to Gibraltar from Sandy Hook in 16 days...
...Monday is scheduled the Senior Spread, which will be held in Lowell House with Gene Krupa providing the music. Wednesday is Class Day, which will be celebrated by some 50 classes dating back 70 years. Most of these will join in the colorful procession to the Stadium in the afternoon, where the Ivy orators will speak. At 3:30 o'clock the baseball team is scheduled to oppose Yale...
Revolutionary for its times was Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum. Only five years previously the Holy See had itself forbidden Canada's Catholics to join the Knights of Labor (forerunner of the A.F. of L.), and it took the prompt and vigorous intervention of the late great James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore to keep the Vatican from extending the ban to U.S. Catholics. In 1887 Dr. Edward McGlynn, pastor of Manhattan's biggest Catholic parish, had been excommunicated for supporting Henry George's single-tax proposals.* And ten years after Rerum Novamm's publication...