Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citing precedents for his opinion. At the White House play-by-play reports of the decision came to the President and his friends. To Secretary Morgenthau the luncheon planned as a possible council of war had become purely a social occasion. Attorney General Cummings and Senator Robinson came to join the White House jubilation. An official bulletin said: "The President is gratified by the decisions." To the New Deal, however, the import of those opinions may yet have significance...
...Pact: The Fatherland is invited to join Britain, France, Italy and Belgium in a pact to "undertake immediately to give the assistance of their air forces to whichever of them might be the victim of unprovoked aerial aggression...
Twice in seven months the Duke of Manchester's erratic second son has set out to join the French Foreign Legion. The first time, last summer, he got as far as the Dunkirk recruiting office before changing his mind, decided to open a hot-dog stand at Maidenhead. "I am Lord Edward Montagu. I want to enlist," he announced again last week to a Paris recruiting officer. The officer took his application, which asked assignment to the aviation service, gave him a 5-franc piece. Lest Lord Edward turn back, his sister, Lady Louise, put him on a train...
...away with a lot of loose thinking and still be consistent to his philosophy. But this very fact is what makes intelligent and stupid alike have less faith in the power of the human mind. If the greatest philosopher in the United States thinks sloppily, we can all join Dr. Townsend, who says of those who have spent their lives studying the economic system that they know "no more about it than...
...does the merriment stop with the performance; rather, in accredited dialect--You ain't seen nuthin' yet. Invited by the charming ushers in evening gowns, you join the cast on the stage for a preliminary cup of coffee and a sandwich gratis. Follows then community singing and dancing, all very folksy, and you can take home anything that strikes your fancy. You will find Belle Livingston just a bit elderly for your tastes, but she is very nice about bringing the young people together. Restrictions are of a naive nature, to quote the program, "Kindly refrain from cracking peanuts during...