Word: joined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conference expressed hope that half a million Americans in their 'teens and early twenties would join in such a movement...
...stoutly opposed by the Republican insurgents and by the greater part of the Democrats. The defection of the insurgents will leave the regular Republicans without power to pass this part of the proposal in either house. A certain number of the conservative Democrats from the Eastern states will, however, join with the regular Republicans. In this number are Senators Bruce (Md.), Glass (Va.), Edwards (N. J.), Walsh (Mass.). But there must be from four to six more of their kind in the Senate, if the surtaxes are to be reduced. In the House the situation is equally dubious...
...Communist Labor Party announced in Christiania that it would join the Conservatives and Agrarians in voting for the repeal of the Prohibition Law. This was said to make certain the end of prohibition in Norway when the Storting (Parliament) meets in the middle of January. The fact that there is an early chance of a complete revocation of the Prohibition law delighted many, but not the bootleggers, who have managed to thrive on smuggling spirits...
...days later the call-to-the-colors was sounded in New York. Said Dr. Alexander: "Social radicals can join the Rand School. Germans can go to Germany. Why cannot they (Modernists) go where they are welcome...
...Gonatas-Plastiras government rode into power in 1922 on the backs of a revolting army and a wave of revulsion of popular feeling against a king who had refused to join the Allies and made a mess of a campaign against the Turk. To make their position quite safe, the Revolutionists proceeded to execute the governing ministers and to get rid of King Constantine. Evidently then believing that they had better "make haste slowly," they invited Constantine's son to take the throne for awhile. Now, feeling with some reason that the new king had a hand in the abortive...