Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conference will be greatly furthered if the debt problems can be satisfactorily advanced. ... If it were not for the urgency of the situation, it would be normal to allow the whole matter to rest until after the change of administration. ... I should be glad to know if you could join with me in the selection of such a delegation at the present time...
This historic interchange between a Republican President and his Democratic successor not only revealed the mental abyss separating the two men but also stirred Washington and Albany to hot political resentment. The Hoover camp felt that Governor Roosevelt was afraid to join forces with the President because he did not want to exhibit publicly his own lack of a debt plan. "I-told-you-so" Republicans chortled about their pre-election predictions that President Hoover's defeat would produce just such a hiatus in economic recovery...
...Ready to join dog-owners in fervent gratitude to the Field Council and its researchers is many a fur-breeder. Distemper has often wiped out stocks of silver fox, ferret, fitch, mink, fisher. Preliminary experiments indicate that the Laidlaw-Dunkin treatment will be effective for these animals...
...collectors interested in modern art hastened to buy his pictures. At his exhibition at the Valentine Galleries in New York in March, 40 canvases were sold, almost a Depression record. Among the purchasers were the Detroit and Cleveland Museums but few critics ever expected the sedate Metropolitan to join the procession...
...Speaker of the House bangs out his will with a mallet-like gavel swung by the wrist and forearm. He is privileged to take the floor and join in legislative debate at will. He must vote to break a tie and may vote whenever else he chooses. As leader of the House majority he picks the legislation he wants brought up. Members speak only at his grace. During the last six days of a session his power to recognize a motion to suspend the rules makes him an absolute dictator of House procedure...