Word: joined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed Senator Johnson's resolution for an investigation of bituminous coal mining and strike conditions in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio. Chairman Watson of the Interstate Commerce Committee appointed Senators Gooding, Pine, Wheeler, Metcalf and Wagner to visit the mines, Senator Couzens refusing to join in what he called "a hippodrome," "a circus performance...
...cannot sacrifice the rights of my country. I will join with you in declaring international law, I will join with you in writing international law, but it must be the law of justice that has come down to us, the law of nations by which we find ourselves bound-justice man to man, justice nation to nation...
...place in Berkenmeer society, should become illicit lovers. One day, Tony took her away. He obtained money from Berkenmeer boosters, hostile to Gortion, to form an aviation company. Natalie and he went barnstorming at county fairs, grabbing quick lunches, flying recklessly, with contempt for gaping yokels. Later, Sayles joined them, added wing-walking and parachute-jumping to their bill of feats. Sayles, lonely, asked an institutional woman named Adrienne to join the troupe as his wife; she told him that he was too insane to marry anyone. He brooded; committed suicide by the simple process of jumping from Tony...
...only that, but in London British patriots began to suspect that a U. S. corporation might join the Cooks-Wagons-Lits merger. Of these possibilities Captain Cohn naturally said not a word last week. Instead he expanded on the immediate benefits of merging "Cooks' " into Wagons-Lits. With a bland contented air, Captain Cohn said...
...join in the regret of Senator Willis that Hoover has spoiled the unanimity of the Ohio delegates, whose unfaltering adherence to Willis might have gone down into history with Alabama's famous 39 votes for Underwood. Senator Willis is the only one to raise his voice against an opponent who holds favorite-son tradition in contempt; whatever the other planks in his platform, he is at least a gentleman of the old school, a lone surviving guardian of courteous politics. Even if, bravely fighting, he should go down, Herber Hoover has still to meet the national convention. In Kansas City...