Word: joinings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Mr. Gillett was to be elevated to the Senate? Why else did an atramental cloud of controversy settle over the struggle, political cuttlefish and squid belch their inky exudation over the contest? Why else did Madden (Chairman of the all-powerful Appropriations Committee) and Longworth (Republican Floor Leader) join fiercely in the issue of their ambitions? Martin B. Madden, white-haired and 70, quarryman by profession (the profession which cost him a leg and sent him into politics), veteran in the political arena (as early as 1897, he made an unsuccessful attempt to gain a Senate seat from Illinois...
...carrying $40,000,000 for improvements after the Gooding amendment to prohibit railways from charging lower rates for long than for short hauls and the Fernald amendment providing for the purchase of the Cape Cod Canal had been defeated. (Went to conference.) ¶ The proposal that the U. S. join the World Court came up and was tucked away again with hardly 100 words spoken...
Both the Harvard Club of Boston and the Athletic Association have been urged to join the scheme as a body. If the University invests, a certain number of shares will be devoted to obtaining guest privileges for the undergraduates which may be enjoyed on the payment of a daily fee. In this way men who play fairly seldom will be freed from the necessity of joining the club, and will have a golf course more accessible than any of those, which now surround Cambridge...
...been less than a quorum present, a roll call would have been automatically taken. A few speeches were made, for and against the Senate's amendment. Representative Blanton of Texas tried to force a roll call, but could not muster the required one-fifth of those present to join in the demand. So the Senate's amendment was concurred in without anyone in either House's being embarrassed by having his name set down in a roll call as favoring an increase in his own salary...
Before the meeting, the representatives of the 16 unions met and agreed that they would not join in an attempt to found a third party?that they would revert to Labor's policy long ago laid down by Samuel Gompers: political opportunism, support of any party or candidate likely to serve their interests...