Word: joint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven-tier cake prepared in honor of Dutra's 64th birthday (see cut). When they got down to more serious talk, the two Presidents agreed to begin negotiating a treaty to stimulate foreign private investment and U.S. technical assistance for Brazil. In flowery Portuguese, Dutra assured a joint session of Congress of Brazil's enduring friendship. When the Presidents parted, Eurico Dutra handed out his bread & butter gifts: for President Truman, a silver cigarette case, and for Bess Truman, a handful of Brazilian semiprecious stones...
...Voted in favor of a joint House-Senate committee to investigate lobbying, including activities of Government agencies...
Fast was one of the 18 members of the Executive Board of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee who were convicted for contempt of Congress because they would not show their books and records to the House un-American Activities Committee...
Last week Congress proposed a joint resolution to make a "full and complete investigation of all lobbying activities intended to influence, encourage, or retard legislation." Backed by the Democratic party, this step would presumably also carry the approval and support of the Justice Department and of President Truman, who sharply attacked lobbying activities in the Eightieth Congress during his campaign last summer...
...present fight started with the Key West conferences on unifying the armed forces at the beginning of last fall, when the Joint Chiefs of Staff hashed out the wartime tasks of their respective services. The major argument centered around strategic bombing--including the employment of the atomic bomb--with the Navy disputing the Air Force's claim to sole jurisdiction. After considerable bargaining, instituted by the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal, the rival services compromised: the Air Force picked up a fat budget, the Navy the 65,000 ton aircraft carrier "United States." This decision, coupled with a pair...