Word: joined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pickard seized his chance to join the expanding Columbia Broadcasting System as vice president. Friction within the Radio Commission and uncertainty of its continuance as an administrative body have depreciated the value of his old job, which paid him $10,000 per annum...
General Dalton, second-highest-paid executive official,* will join a private shipping enterprise. Since 1926 he has directed the Government's fleet of 250 vessels. He rose from an Army private to Assistant Quarter-Master-General in charge of transportation. A year ago the Dalton brow darkened unhappily when a Fleet Corporation reorganization clipped his authority. Now the prospect of the sale of the Government's ships, with the consequent evaporation of his good job, was doubtless what tempted him to desert the Coolidge barkentine...
...Thomas Barbour '06, Director of the University Museum left Boston yesterday for Florida where he will join A. V. Armour, for an extensive cruise, which will include many Harvard biological and botanical foundations in southern latitudes. The trip will be made on the Armour yacht "Utowana...
...assignment to Houses in accordance with the idea of a cross-section composition for each calls forth the following remarks from a proselyting member of Unit C: "When your application blanks come you must on no account mention Unit C." "Why?" "Because the dean will think you want to join the units you list because you have friends there, or because you hear the tutors are good, or because you think the fellows will be congenial, or for some other low and detestable reason...
Racketeer. The essential step in the working of an industrial racket is the formation of an association which all the local operators in the industry are invited to join. Thus a dry cleaner might find himself invited to join a local dry cleaning association, paying this association an initiation fee and annual dues. Should he refuse to join, his house might be bombed, his place of business wrecked, his person assaulted, his life taken. Minor forms of pressure would be the hurling of stench bombs, or the introduction of acids or explosives into his cleaning fluids. Should the dry cleaner...