Word: joined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expressed surprise, declaring he had made peace with the Soviet regime and addressed a petition to the Central Executive Committee, asking for a reprieve. He begged us not to shoot him until the executive's reply came. I informed him this was impossible, and took him to join Kolchak...
...leaders of this group made strenuous efforts to induce ex-Premiers Orlando and Giolitti to join them in their boycott, but they were rebuffed; Signori Orlando and Giolitti declined to associate themselves with an illegal organization. The leaders went sorrowfully back to their Hill. Rumors were that the boycott was to be discontinued...
Twenty years ago, Canadian Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists, perhaps remembering the words of St. Mark,* decided to serry their ranks and join a new United Church of Canada. For 20 years, excepting the War period, union has been hotly debated by a minority of Presbyterian irreconcilables. Hardly a dissentient voice came from Methodists or Congregationalists...
Last year, the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa passed a vote legalizing the union. It provided that a majority vote of each congregation shall decide whether that congregation shall join the union or stay out. The voting is still taking place and, from known results, is sure to return a handsome majority of Unionists. The union of the three churches is to be consummated in Toronto on June 10. Each denomination is to hold a great and last conclave, each is to form a separate procession, converge upon a central point, march on as the United Church of Canada...
...decision of the National Squash Committee, placing the University in a new squash district with Lincoln's Inn. Formerly the University was in the same district with the Harvard Club and the other metropolitan teams, but the new ruling does away with the right of individual Crimson players to join the Boston team in its trip to Buffalo...