Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agreeing to hire all new employees through the A. F. of L. and by urging all non-affiliated laborers to join Locals 186 and 112, the university has paved the way for an all-union shop in the kitchens. As a further concession wage increases, which amount to as much as $2 a week in the case of waitresses, have been successfully agreed upon...
...hours earlier the British Government rejected proposals that it join the United States in economic reprisals against "disturbers of the peace" or at least punish Germany by means of a trade boycott...
...world, which has so far been able to pass judgment only on Franco's none too striking military qualities, the biggest question mark about Spain was what kind of a ruler he will be. Will he become a dynamic dictator like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, and join them in adventures against the peace of the world? Or will he simply be a routine, domestic military dictator of the type of Primo de Rivera, his predecessor? Will his government-after the war is over-be Fascist or will he restore the monarchy...
...farmers hold their crop in the barns, while the Trust offers bribe prices to growers who do not belong. When recalcitrant growers refuse to join the Association, they are warned. After two warnings, masked night riders drag them out of bed, force them to destroy their own plant beds. If they still play ball with the Trust, their barns are burned. When the Trust strikes back, 2,000 armed growers march into Bardsville, seize the telephone and telegraph offices, lock up police and firemen, burn the brand-new million-dollar Trust warehouses...
This is what Dartmouth Night should be like, according to its concept. But it isn't actually, at least of late. For Dartmouth men have begun to fidget in their seats when the telegrams are read, and they no longer join so heartily in the singing. They have begun to think of Dartmouth Night as mawkish and maudlin, and they are all for washing it out of the pretty green picture...