Word: joinings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, D. C, is the Congressional Club, composed of women of the Congressional set. Wives of Congressmen have always been ipso facto eligible for membership, have even been urged to join when they showed lack of initiative. But last week, Mrs. Albert H. Vestal, wife of the Indiana Representative, offered an amendment to the club's constitution which, if passed at a general meeting on Feb. 6, will make it possible for the club's members to thwart the election of women whose right to belong has hitherto been unquestioned. The amendment provides that the candidate must...
...nine months the Federal courts have been investigating the live poultry situation in Manhattan. Last week they indicted 91 poultry racketeers who had maintained a monopoly on the distribution of live fowl by persecuting retailers who refused to join a ring quaintly called "Greater New York Live Poultry Chamber of Commerce." The retailers were unable to get chickens for their markets, or only to get inferior, poisoned poultry. Their homes and shops were destroyed by bombs; their markets burned or polluted by poison gas. Their truck drivers were slugged; the tires of their trucks sliced...
...socially elect "career man" and U. S. Ambassador to Argentina, was able to set out last week on a vacation which he had been forced to abandon temporarily when President-Elect Herbert Hoover decided to junket around South America (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). Originally Mr. Bliss planned to join Mrs. Bliss in Europe; but she has now crossed the Atlantic and the U. S. to California. Therefore, as Ambassador Bliss left Buenos Aires, last week, he headed not for Paris but for San Francisco...
...testimony before the Senate Committee on Public Lands, concerning the oil scandals; how he had asked for Colonel Stewart's resignation last April; how Colonel Stewart has continued to ignore his request. "I am therefore," wrote Mr. Rockefeller Jr., "asking the stockholders of the company to join me in opposing his re-election...
Would it not be a great blessing to allow the Junior Prom quietly and unmolestedly to join the Dodo, who has for many years been waiting to receive the aimiable Freak-Dance of the college? A resort to the oxygen of a bedizened ballroom and the hypodermic of exciting music would but for a space postpone that extinction which the poor Prom has long coveted and deserved...