Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beds. Versailles is a small town. Last week there were not beds enough for some 300 Senators and 500 Deputies who journeyed out from Paris to constitute, in joint session, the National Assembly of France. All provident, the Government of veteran Premier Poincaré despatched from Paris a truckload of beds and bedding, caused them to be distributed to good advantage among the hotels of Versailles. Came dawn. Through the forethought of M. Poincaré, the Senators and Deputies arose refreshed, complacent, found themselves even provided with a special bar outside their meeting hall where viands and vintages of every...
...Suffered Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (President of the Board of Trade) to dispense the pessimistic information that the Joint Trade Committee had come to the definite conclusion last week that no present remedy is at hand for protecting the British cinema, production industry against what has proved to be the disastrous competition of U. S. films...
...joint Panama-U. S. board will issue airplane flight licenses to U. S. and Panama aviators only...
What is considered the greatest blow to transatlantic bootlegging since the Dry law went into effect was the U. S.-British agreement signed last week by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews and R. G. Van Sittart for Great Britain. Joint co-operation in the British West Indies (with particular reference to the Bahamas) is assured whereby: 1) The U. S. may have an Intelligence Service in the Islands to trace liquor shipments; 2) Joint precautions will be taken against false registration of ships...
Filipinos. Oracle Thompson was an interesting exhibit before the joint opening session of Filipino Senate and House. He was applauded half-heartedly (Governor General Leonard Wood was not applauded at all); he spoke of "public lands . . . rubber . . . righteousness . . . loyalty;" he heard a unanimous resolution, agreed upon by both Houses, informing President Coolidge of the intense desire of the Filipinos for immediate, complete, absolute independence. Colonel Thompson had another entry for his notebook, along with the item that the night before he had drunk champagne to Mr. Coolidge's health at the proposal of Manuel Quezon, president of the Senate...