Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portland, Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley, regarded as a personal representative of the President, was booed as he walked to the convention platform. He was seated as an Oklahoma delegate, thus being apparently obliged to join in voting for immediate payment of the cash Bonus. (The Oklahoma delegation was also pledged to vote for repeal of the 18th Amendment.) After a safe & sound speech on armament, Secretary Hurley was let off the platform with more cheers than boos...
...Impeach Hindenburg!" Probably in 1914-15 der feldmarschall had no time to notice that he, his Kaiser and the General Staff were being attacked every day by one Clara Zetkin, editor of a Socialist sheet (she did not join the Communist Party until 1919) which demanded "Proletarian Peace."* Without troubling der feldmarschall, policemen arrested Frau Zetkin in 1915 and kept her under indictment, though she was finally released. Last week she tongue-lashed thus: "Without consult ing the Reichstag, political power in Ger many has for the moment been grasped by a Presidential Cabinet which is the servant of trust...
...partner win four of the first five holes. The match was over at the 30th, with Ouimet & Dunlap 7 up. Captain Thomas Arthur ("Tony") Torrance of the British team and John De Forest, British Amateur champion, did very little better. They lost to Gus Moreland (in vited to join the U. S. team while he was winning the Western Amateur last fort night) and huge Charlie Seaver (Stanford footballer, who plays golf because his father wants him to) on the 31st green. Jess Sweetser and George Voigt beat the Hartley brothers, Rex and Lister, 7 & 6, after Rex Hartley...
...Last week it was announced that Governor General Roosevelt would return from the Philippines in mid-September to join the Hoover campaign, help dispel the notion that the Democratic presidential nominee belongs to T.R.'s breed...
...with a contract that gave him all initiation fees for his promotion work. The order's orphanage at Mooseheart, Ill. was his special charity. When he became Secretary of Labor in 1921, he talked Moose to all- comers, signed up Senators and Congressmen. Smart politicians took care to join the Secretary's order when they wanted favors at the Labor Department. When Moose Davis resigned from the Cabinet in 1930 to take a Senate seat, he sold his promotion contract to other members of the order for a handsome profit. Last week's charges against him shocked...