Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consul at Bermuda asked the U. S. Coast Guard to start a search. Seven Coast Guard cutters scoured the Atlantic from Montauk to Bermuda. Irving Blum, brother of Nat Blum, and David Rosenstein grew worried. They persuaded New York's Congressman Fiorello La Guardia to have naval tugboats join the hunt. When the tugboats, 100 Coast Guard cutters, the British naval unit at Bermuda, twelve seaplanes and 60 privately owned ships had failed to discover the Curlew, the U. S. Navy Department ordered U. S. S. Akron, world's largest airship, to join the hunt. The Akron flew...
...makes a quiet living at cabinetmaking, preaches, lives a strange philosophy-"Resist not evil!" Towards him Odin, in spite of his love for his mother and Karen-Anna, is irresistibly drawn. After a series of boyish escapades, capped by a miraculous escape from drowning, Odin leaves home to join his father. "It was queer to be walking like this all alone on a strange road. And he had felt the same when he was a little boy, sometimes: it was as though you couldn't believe in what you saw. It was just as grand for all that...
...other Spanish generals were ousted for similar cause. Hero of the hour was Lieut.-Colonel Julio Mangada, the only officer present who refused to join Spain's Chief of Staff in shouting "Viva Espana!" (the last words uttered by King Alfonso XIII before he left Spain). Rebuked by the Chief of Staff in the presence of common soldiers for refusing to shout "Viva Espana!", heroic Lieut.-Colonel Mangada reached for his service pistol, was pounced upon and arrested...
...York Teachers' Union. Should it wish to it could, unlike N. E. A., strike for anything it demanded. It could even become actively affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, as last week in Chicago it was urged to do. The A. F. of T. did not join but listened in approval while A. F. of L.'s president William Green said: "Labor is as much interested in maintaining the standard of education as it is in maintaining the standard of wages." A. F. of T. adopted resolutions as follows...
...Prussia under the rule of a "Federal Commissioner" (TIME, June 20) agreed over the telephone to a peculiar settlement of that issue last week. The Fascists, though they have a plurality in the Prussian Diet and are therefore entitled by tradition to expect that the other parties will join in electing a Fascist Premier of Prussia, agreed last week that Socialist Dr. Otto Braun may remain Prussian Premier without opposition until the Federal election June...