Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons of cultivated rubber-50% of the potential production and 200.000 tons below the ten year average. Aside from the Dutchmen, production of native rubber, an uncontrollable and widely varying factor, has been one of the chief obstacles of a rubber-tight agreement. But the times are in joint: it is estimated rubber consumption in 1933 will exceed production for the first time in five years. This week all good Dutch planters will emerge from the jungle to ponder their delegates' schemes in Batavia...
...joint concert annually held on the eve of the Harvard-Yale game will be presented by the glee clubs of the two colleges at 8.15 o'clock tonight in Sanders Theatre...
...stockholders of every corporation and joint stock association for banking purposes, shall be individually responsible to the amount of their respective share or shares of stock in any such corporation or association, for all its debts and liabilities of every kind...
Starting with the night the Volstead Act shut down on the U. S. (Jan. 16, 1920), omnireminiscent Observer Walker takes a quick stroll through the 13 ensuing years, cocking a never-reverent eye at Manhattan's speakeasies, Prohibition agents, cops, racketeers, hostesses, parsons, suckers, "clip-joint" proprietors, colyumists. Some of his headliners: "Owney" Madden, Walter Winchell, Jimmy Walker, Barney Gallant, the late John Roach Straton, "Legs" Diamond, "Texas" Guinan, Larry Fay, Florence Mills. Some of the things he recalls: That the Prohibition raids instigated by Mabel Walker Willebrandt in New York cost the Government "at least $75,000," brought...
...appointed by President Harding after he had led the Republican Party in the election of 1918 to its first major Congressional comeback since the debacle of 1912. But politics do not sway his decisions. By law he holds office for 15 years, can be removed only by joint resolution of Congress or impeachment, is ineligible for reappointment. Personally affable, with eyes of merry blue, he speaks in a slow, quiet voice. Iowa-born, he was educated in Nebraska, practiced law there. Washington-polished, he plays golf in the 80's at the Congressional Club. Observers have long anticipated...