Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President and the Speaker of the House. To tap for order the Vice President uses a small wooden cylinder about the size of a large salt shaker which he holds between his fingers. Under the Senate rules, he votes only to break a tie. He is not permitted to join in legislative debate or make any kind of speech. His utterances are confined to cut & dried parliamentary rulings which a Senate majority can overturn at will. On his Senate throne he is a glorified policeman, keeping peace in the chamber but powerless to influence any of its deliberations...
...With the addition of Phillips Brooks House to the inter-House leagues, this ill-effect on the fraternities may be felt even more, because the men who do not live in the Houses and formerly played on fraternity or club teams, will now undoubtedly join the newly-organized Phillips Brooks House teams...
...start of the War, Lawrence tried to join an O. T. C. at Oxford, was turned down because there were too many recruits. He got a temporary job in the Geographic Section of the General Staff. Four months later he was sent to Egypt. There, besides making himself a thorn in the flesh of red-taped, uninformed superiors, he did such jobs as edit a handbook of information about the Turkish Army, containing such unsoldierly comments as "General Abd el Mahmoud commanding the ?th Division is half-Albanian by birth and a consumptive; an able officer and a gunnery...
...stages of London and Manhattan, where he has been seen in These Charming People, The High Road, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and last season, with his wife Edna Best, in There's Always Juliet. Edna Best was in Hollywood last year under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; she left to join her husband who was then in no special demand by the cinema. The situations of Edna Best and Herbert Marshall are now reversed. Last month he left Hollywood, whither he will soon return, to join his wife in the London cast of Another Language...
...deal with Pabst, Premier Co. stands ready to join the front-rank scramble for national beer sales. Premier plans to concentrate all its brewing in Milwaukee, to use its Peoria plant to make a breakfast food and the other two to make malt products, probably for the trade. The Pabst cheese business will be continued. An unusual glimpse into the private figures of beerdom was afforded recently when Hilson & Neuberger, Manhattan bankers, offered some shares in Anheuser-Busch, Inc. The company's assets were listed at $26.295,000 and its earnings for the first half of the year were...