Word: joinings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attendance at a military training camp (Mr. Coolidge is firm believer in military and naval preparedness), and Calvin, 15, is working at $3.50 a day on a vacation (tobacco) farm. Later in the Summer when Mrs. Coolidge enters the White House, it is understood that her children will join...
Count von Reventlow, naval officer and noted exponent of ruthless submarine attacks during the War, recalled with regret the failure of German and Bolshevik arms to join forces against Poland in 1920. He complained of "the ruthless opposition of the Communists against the Nationalists," a fact which precluded the possibility of an alliance. He discussed in an approving vein a plan that Nationalist and Communists should march together "for a part of their way." After the defeat of the "common opponent" they?the Communists and the Nationalists?will be able to settle their differences...
...rural credits discussion in Washington last year was the authorization of a joint commission of Senators and Representatives, whose duty it would be to ascertain why it was that 9,678 banks in this country eligible for membership in the Reserve System, had not seen fit to join it. The commission will travel into every state in the Union and hold hearings in all significant banking centers...
...House of Lords a debate was held on Lord Gorell's motion to have Britain join the U. S. in call-ing an international conference on air armament limitation. The debate was, however, interrupted by the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President of the Council, who informed the House that, although the Govern-ment was desirous of cooperating with other countries, the discussion of air armaments was politically iinexpedient on account of the state of affairs on the continent. The motion was negatived without division...
...party to Atlantic City and elsewhere while the bootleggers recklessly dissipated "grands" ($1,000 bills). He had them show him where their contraband was hidden. Under his encouragement the original syndicate of "six to nine" brewery-bootleggers grew to 15, and plans were laid for inducing 50 to join the criminal ring. But the bootleggers insisted it was time to begin operations. Finally he could put them off no longer. "That night the underworld rejoiced. A damp and fetid night it was ... a dreary, dismal night, hung on the edge of the calendar, where approaching Winter touches the garments...