Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flyers, which ultimately clogged up the blowers on the "Karishruhe," contained among other statements the following exhortation, written in German: Attention German sailors! Let not Hitler lie to you. His promises are broken daily. Salvation lies in Communism. The heroic K.P.D. lives and fights. Join the fight, German sailors, for a free Soviet Germany...
...help her to a machine. I will, if you will. You might induce some of the impartial police, personally, to join us: Chief Cato. for example. I may ask some picked ranchers to come in on it and your Mr. Secretary Smith could invite the highbrow newspapermen he sees daily. They might have a sense of humor. If the fund should exceed the price of one cheap typewriter I'll keep the difference for the purchase of another if the first one should be wrecked in some righteous raid...
...year. He was asked to suggest a head for the struggling Chicago Edison Co., a $12,000-a-year job. He suggested himself and his offer was snapped up. Edison was only one of several primitive electric companies in Chicago. After three years Insull left it to join a rival named Commonwealth. Later he merged the two into Commonwealth Edison. When he went to Chicago electric power was about as reliable as the automobiles of 1905. He undertook to make it into the efficient thing it is today. He it was who bought and installed the first steam turbine generator...
...sheiks' children and held them as hostages. The latest dispute over the unmapped boundary between Yemen and Asir has been going on for two years, complicated by the fact that last year the Idrissi of Asir, repenting his surrender to Ibn Saud, fled over the border to join Yahya the Imam...
Paris, May 13--Sales of United States airplanes, motors and parts to Germany aroused officials today. The press, however recalled there is nothing to be done about it because the United States never was asked to join an agreement between France and Great Britain not to sell Germany anything which she could use for military aviation...