Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good reason for the appointment was the President's desire to increase the compensation of Dr. Tugwell who had given up a better paying job as professor of Economics at Columbia to join the New Deal. As Assistant Secretary of Agriculture he has been drawing $7,500 per year (less 10% Federal pay cut); as Undersecretary he will be paid $10,000 (less 10%). Another reason was the President's obvious intention to retort to the clamorous criticism of this Brain Truster by some special mark of public preference for him and his services...
Nearly all of greater Cleveland's 4,500 schoolmen & marms belong to a local guild called the Cleveland Federation of Teachers. Few months ago some of them decided it was time to join up with a national movement toward making life pleasanter for pedagogs. Last February they swallowed their professional pride, took out charter No. 279 in the American Federation of Teachers, affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. Last week with 1,200 members the local felt strong enough to beard Cleveland's Board of Education with a petition. That brought up the question of whether...
Twenty new appointments, all but two of them to the Department of Science, will take effect September 1st for the ensuing year. The largest group of appointees to one division is the four men who will become associated with the Zoology Department. Three will join the Geology faculty...
...chosen in the reading this afternoon will join delegates from 20 or more New England colleges at Vassar on May 12, where the Intercollegiate Poetry Reading is to be held...
...week, at the amount of the brew given gratis at the American Music Hall. Lavishly distributed by Producer Harry C. Bannister. Cinemactress Ann Harding's divorced husband, round after round appears, during the performance and after, when the cast descends among the guests and encourages one & all to join in singing old favorites...