Word: joined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three delegates from the University chapter of the American Veterans Committee will join an army of 2,000 representatives from other veterans organizations in Washington today to press for passage of the Taft-Ellender-Wagner federal housing bill...
Remote as the Southern threat was, it added zest to the Republicans' own festivities. In Huntington, W. Va. for a Lincoln Day address, Senate Republican Whip Ken Wherry taunted: "Where are the Jeffersonian Democrats today? They are just waiting to be invited to join...
...John Nance Garner had sat for seven years on his Texas farm, stubbornly refusing to say a word about the past. He had even burned all his records (TIME, July 14). But in the long run he could not resist the temptation to join the long line of Franklin Roosevelt's old intimates in the writing of memoirs.* With Garner's blessing, Washington Correspondent Bascom N. Timmons, a crony of his Washington days, drew on his own notes and memory, started the ex-Vice President's story last week in Collier's. Some milk and thorns...
...autumnal Ganges floods had receded at Allahabad, baring a five-square-mile mud flat where three sacred rivers join-the muddy Ganges, the blue Jumna, and the Saraswati, which, according to Hindu legend, wells up from underground. At the Triveni Sangam (Meeting of the Three Rivers) last week, a tumultuous tent city had grown up, peopled by 3,000,000 Hindus. By thousands of fires, breech-clouted sadhus (holy men) chanted Vedic hymns. Around the clock a clangor of raucous songs mingled with hymns, flutes with elephant bells, caterwauls with the keening of sacred recitations. The millions had come...
...went ahead with production, the Dramatic Club heard from Lee Strasburg, veteran Broadway producer, who announced that he would be unsble to direct "The Survivor" owing to pressure of other duties. However, he did consent to join Drian Shaw, the play's author, in revising the HDC script...