Word: joined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Springs, W.Va. It was soft and low, but it was the voice of John L. Lewis. He had a message for "the able Mr. Green." Making no mention of his own many troubles (his 385,000 striking coal diggers are making little headway), John L. proposed that the A.F.L. join with him to help Phil Murray's C.I.O. fight against "the giant adversaries which would decimate one by one the major units of organized labor...
...discussion reached the Nationalist government in China, which promptly dispatched an icy notice of dismissal to Ambassador Tsien. That brought his followers out into the open: nine of the ten embassy staff members publicly announced that they had switched allegiance to the Communists, called on other Chinese diplomats to join them against "warmongers." Radio Peiping was delighted, but the French government was not. It withdrew diplomatic recognition from the renegade nine, and the Nationalist government dispatched a smiling troubleshooter named Tuan Mao-Ian from the London embassy to take charge of the Paris situation...
...season a shadow named Danny Gardella had hung over organized baseball. Danny, a New York Giant outfielder of mediocre talents, who had beetled off to join the ill-fated Mexican League in 1946, was suing baseball for $300,000-and challenging the whole system of "reserve clause" contracts which can bind a ballplayer to one club for his entire career (TIME, Feb. 21). Fortnight ago, while the World Series was going full blast, organized baseball quietly talked Danny into dropping his suit...
...minor American Revolutionary figure (Joseph Hawley of Massachusetts). After a. spell as associate editor of the Times's monthly news review, Current History, Brown moved over to Lester Markel's Sunday department in 1936. He was assistant Sunday editor when he left, in 1945, to join TIME, where he has been editor of the Hemisphere, Canadian and Latin America sections...
Then, asking the Senate to join him, Barkley prayed: "Lord, in these days of uncertainty, we ask for and thank Thee for the boon of Thy guidance and direction. Endow us with wisdom and light to see the path of our duty, and courage to keep our feet within it. Amen...