Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...none of those harried gentlemen join the ranks of the opposition, the Republican Party. Why? The answer lies in the boarded stuffed shirts who ride the elephant. Taking refuge in the Constitution, they have failed to present an effective or intelligent plan of opposition. For instance, Chairman Fletcher has not discovered anything faintly resembling a program, while at the same time he assails the administration for aimless wandering. None of his aides of the grandfather vintage, such as Mr. Ames in Maine, have faced issues squarely, not to speak of presenting them humanly. No wonder the party has been unable...
...taking his turn as President of the League Council. To oblige M. Barthou last week M. Benes paid Russia the unprecedented compliment of popping into his limousine and riding as Council President 20 miles out to Comrade Litvinoff's village. He brought an invitation for Russia to join the League signed by 30 countries whose signatures M. Barthou had obtained. Comrade Litvinoff "telegraphed" Russia's acceptance on a blank which M. Benes stuffed into his pocket before dashing back to Geneva. President Benes convoked the Council. Then Poland, at M. Barthou's behest, was constrained to vote...
When the U. S. Davis Cup team was selected for European play last June the country's second ranking player, Wilmer Lawson Allison Jr. of Austin, Tex., was not on it. Later in the month Allison was asked to join the team in England. When he got there, he was told that he would not be needed. Last week, in the National Singles Championship at Forest Hills, L. I., Allison got a chance to show how he felt about a team on which he had not been considered good enough to play. First he beat huge, handsome Lester Stoefen...
Another member of the Harvard faculty will join President Roosevelt's Brain Trust it was learned yesterday when reports that Calvert B. Magruder, Vice Dean of the Law School, has been granted a year's leave of absence, in order that he might accept an appointment by the President as counsel to the National Labor Relations Board...
...Praise the Lord!" the Rev. James Myers of Manhattan, Industrial Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, delivered the funeral oration. "These men," he cried, "were instruments of Jesus Christ in His work of love. . . . They died to make industry Christian. ... It is a test of Christian unselfishness to join a labor union...