Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. George Miller, 48, farmer-millionaire, joint owner of 101 Ranch and 101 Ranch Wild West Show, of skull fracture, in an auto crash near Ponca City, Okla...
...Adopted a joint resolution authorizing $25,000 for maintaining order during the Hoover inauguration. Said South Carolina's Blease: "It is a reflection on the American people that we have to hire policemen . . . after the magnificent Hoover vote." "We have to have more police men," added minority leader Robinson, "to take care of the Republicans." ¶ Ratified three treaties designed...
...view of the Christian Herald's and Bishop Cannon's joint distaste for liquor, there seemed no doubt but that Bishop Cannon had been honored more for his anti-Prohibitionism than for his purely non-political Christian virtues and contributions...
...Hoover conferred with Washington's "Dry" Senator Jones, New Jersey's "Wet" Senator Edge. He induced them to withdraw their joint resolution, pending in Congress, calling for an investigation of prohibition enforcement. In place of Congressional action, Mr. Hoover intends to appoint, shortly after he enters office, a sage, non-partisan committee of perhaps nine or eleven persons to conduct a thorough enforcement inquiry report to Mr. Hoover...
First. Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France announced at Paris that Tycoon Owen D. Young had accepted a joint Allied and German invitation to sit on the new Committee of Experts as one of two U. S. members. This meant that the revised Dawes Plan will probably go down in history as the Young Plan. Among those who might object would not be Vice President Charles Gates Dawes. Just and modest, General Dawes has already said (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926) that the original Dawes Plan was largely the work of one of his colleagues on the Reparations Commission, none other...