Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to aid in arriving at the truth of the matter, if such is possible, we have accepted the invitation of the Harvard CRIMSON to join in conducting a poll among University undergraduates. What the results of this poll may prove, we cannot definitely say. But we hope that it will be of some slight help in causing something to be done about what, in our opinion, is a most unsavory condition--the disrespect for law in the form of the Volstead Act and the terrific corruption in city and town governments resulting from efforts to "beat" that law. --Brown...
...received this week a letter from the Harvard Daily CRIMSON, a very worthy contemporary, requesting The Daily Student to join a number of other college dailies in conducting a national campus poll on the merits of prohibition and the possibilities of its repeal...
Under a scorching sun the trek continued. Mr. Gandhi's head and legs began to ache. At Nawagon, haggard and drooping, he stayed another night, urged the villagers to make and wear homespun clothes, to join the Disobedients. There he profoundly congratulated the eight "head men" who had cheerfully resigned as a protest against Vallabhai Patel's imprisonment. Next day, at Boriavi, he declared: "Money alone will not win self-government. If money could win, I should have obtained it long ago. What is required, therefore, is your blood." When he arrived at Nadiad, Mr. Gandhi sank to the ground...
Died. Edward Franklin Albee, 73, Manhattan theatrical manager; at Palm Beach; of angina pectoris. As a boy he ran away from his native Machias, Maine, to join a wagon show. Working for the late, great Phineas Taylor ("P. T.") Barnum. he met Benjamin Franklin Keith. Together they built theatres, organized a vaudeville circuit which ultimately became $67.000,000 Keith-Albee-Orpheum, bought by Radio Corp. two years...
...company to join the Gas system is New York Steam Corp., whose function is to furnish steam for heating and power purposes. The root of New York Steam Corp. was New York Steam Co.. founded in 1880. During the War, New York Steam Co. had fuel troubles, went bankrupt in 1921. Since its reorganization the corporation has been extremely successful. In 1922 its net earnings were only $615,000; for the year ending June 30, 1929 they came to over $2,700,000, up 21% from...