Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosenwald announced that his gift would be made on condition that an additional $5,000,000 be subscribed by other philanthropists. He selected as the recipient of this contingent contribution the parent board, of the so-called Agro-Joint or "American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation." Though little famed, the Corporation has been functioning since 1924 in an effort to get Jews established as painlessly as possible on the rich farm lands granted them by the Soviet State in the Ukraine, Crimea and White Russia...
...Director of Agro-Joint is gray-haired and twinkling-eyed Dr. Joseph A, Rosen, a Russian-born agricultural expert who migrated to the U. S. but went. back to Russia after the War to assist the famine relief conducted by omnipresent Herbert Hoover...
...Rosen's work at that time in instructing Russians how to farm efficiently and rotate their crops came the founding of Agro-Joint, at his suggestion, with the financial support of a parent board, the so-called J. D. C. or "Joint Distribution Committee" (of the U. S.) which is now chairmanned by famed Felix M. Warburg, Manhattan banking tycoon...
...administration of Tangier in Morocco, that the U. S., though not represented at the conference, expects continuation of the "open-door" policy in the internationalized part and zone of Tangier-equal rights, opportunities and protection for all-comers. France and Spain have lately been the de facto joint rulers of Tangier, with England looking on. In 1923, a Tangier conference was held without representatives from Italy or the U.S. At this month's conference, in Paris, Italy was expected to try to "strengthen her position...
...spirit of the dead Horatio and the spirit of the living Michael clasp hands, regretfully, almost tearfully. Boswell without Johnson, Johnson without Boswell: fate was kind to Mr. Alger, and is kinder to Mr. Meehan; but it left a vulnerable spot, and for both the times are out of joint...