Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With not a single State dissenting, 16 have so far disavowed national Prohibition. Sixteen more will vote before December. Enough additional States may possibly join the Wet parade to effect Repeal by Jan. 1. Such was the earnest hope of nondrinking "General" Farley as he and his Democratic machine concentrated their activities on the South last week...
...jumped bushy-browed "C. N." Haskell who had artfully persuaded 100,000 Indians to join the cause of Statehood. "That constitution is mine," he bawled. "I want to be Governor so I can enforce it." The crowd cheered lustily. Later "C. N." Haskell was elected the State's first Governor and "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, who also thought the constitution was his, was chosen first Speaker of the Legislature. Slinging a belt and a six-shooter around his waist, Governor Haskell took office...
...Continentals, whose feathers had been badly ruffled by what they considered the President's rude language and dictatorial air in his first message, were perceptibly smoothed down. Not retreating one inch. Mr. Roosevelt again refused gold stabilization between currencies but in effect persuasively invited the world to join the U. S. on a standard of managed currency and commodity money. "Revaluation of the dollar in terms of American commodities," he wrote, "is an end from which the Government and people of the United States cannot be diverted. . . . The exchange value of the dollar will ultimately depend upon the success...
...Technocrat was going to make a speech, sped the news. Present would be President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, General William Irving Westervelt of Sears, Roebuck, old Clarence Darrow, Economist Stuart Chase. Two collateral bodies, the All America Technological Society and the National Technological Congress, were joining with the Continental Convention on Technocracy. It looked as though another flight into the upper air of serious attention might be in store for the limp technocratic skyrocket which last winter burst in a dazzling festoon of headlines and sputtered out in the back pages of hinterland newspapers. Then Howard Scott...
...reorganized in 1916 by Headmaster Walter Huston Lillard. Dartmouth man and Oxonian who had been assistant to the headmaster of Andover since 1907. His 150 boys sail, row. cruise, hold cutter drills. Every spring they are taken on a cadet-training cruise to Central America. They may join a "Sea Scout" unit (nautical branch of the Boy Scouts) under the direction of Captain James P. Lewis of the Naval Reserve...