Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open letter to the New York Times, Producer Winthrop Ames pledged himself never again to buy a newspaper which revealed Colonel Lindbergh's whereabouts without his permission, asked: "Who will join me in this pledge...
Died. Clarence Day, 61, writer and cartoonist; of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan. A few years out of Yale, Clarence Day, a grandson of the founder of the New York Sun, quit the Stock Exchange to join the Navy during the Spanish-American War. In the service he developed arthritis which made him a life-long cripple. Despite his paralyzed hands he began to write short sketches and verses, illustrated them with simple, sinister drawings of shapeless men and beasts. He published a number of books, (God and My Father, Scenes From the Mesozoic), became a best seller last summer with...
...Soviet transport sector, anti-Stakhanovites have had their teeth knocked, in and been booted from their jobs. He clearly indicated that he means to enforce speedups throughout Russia by the same methods of OGPU terror which have forced 85% of all Russian peasants who were not wiped out to join collective farms...
...their pell-mell way to join the New Deal in the spring of 1933, the professors of the Brain Trust might have noticed one of their former colleagues proceeding in the opposite direction. The tall, bald, rangy gentleman with the glum expression was William Marion Jardine, who had deserted his books to be Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture and Hoover Minister to Egypt. After a brief stay in the Kansas State Treasurer's office, Republican Jardine was offered and accepted the presidency of the Municipal University of Wichita. (Enrollment...
Last month the Supreme Electoral Tribunal upset the coalition cart by ruling that electors must vote for the nominee of their party. Thus the rebellious Liberal wing could not join the Gomez coalition and foxy old Menocal would probably win. With the coalition threatening to withdraw from the election if the ruling stood, and the Menocalistas threatening to withdraw if the ruling was disregarded, President Mendieta again postponed the election, called in Dr. Dodds...