Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House and the Executive Mansion at Albany a four-day exchange of telegrams, each as coldly polite as any diplomatic note from nation to nation, charted the course of the disagreement. Final statements to the Press furnished the cracker of ill-feeling that ruptured all chance of joint action. Excerpts from the Hoover-Roosevelt correspondence...
...program be held in abeyance until after March 4. ... It would be improper for me and inadvisable for you, for me to take part in naming representatives [who] could be responsible only and properly to you as President. ... It would be unwise for me to accept an apparent joint responsibility with you when, as a matter of constitutional fact, I would be wholly lacking in any attendant authority...
President-elect Roosevelt: There remains before March only the possibility of exploratory work and preliminary surveys. ... I am glad to avoid the loss of precious time through delay in starting these preliminaries. . . . However for me to accept any joint responsibility in the work of exploration might well be construed by other nations as a commitment -moral, even though not legal-as to policies and courses of action. . . . The designation of a man or men of such eminence as your telegram suggests would not imply mere fact-findings; it would suggest the presumption that such representatives were empowered to exchange views...
...Italy is going to pay. Belgium has invoked her incapacity. But we cannot tell the world we cannot pay 480,000,000 francs [$19,000,000]. You are going to ruin our entente with Britain. You are going to prevent our standing on an equal footing with Britain in joint action later on! For 480,000,000 francs, gentlemen, you are going to ruin all that...
...edition of Dana's "System of Mineralogy," now being carried on in conjunction with Professor Ford at Yale University. On Thursday, December 29, an address on "The New Mineralogy" will be given by A. N. Winehell, professor of mineralogy at Wisconsin University and president of the Society in joint session with the Geological Society at the Harvard Union...