Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting. French and British finally succeeded in closing their section of the Settlement to passage of Japanese troops or the madly careening trucks that caused almost as much damage as shell fire. U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell, British Admiral Sir Charles Little, backed by the French naval commander, devised joint proposals which they sent to their Consuls General who in turn presented them to Shanghai's Chinese Mayor, toothy O. K. (for nothing) Yui and Japanese Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa. For the protection of foreigners in the International Settlement, one demanded that all Japanese warships drop downstream below the China...
George Wingfield bought a faro outfit, set himself up in the roaring mining town of Tonopah and began to rake in the shekels. Before long he was known as the ''Boy Gambler," ran his own gambling joint in Goldfield in competition with the late Tex Rickard. Meanwhile he was speculating steadily in low-price mining stocks. One was the Mohawk mine, which in 1906 struck gold, reached a value of $7,000,000 in seven months. Wingfield and Nixon joined forces, bought other properties which they incorporated as Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. with a capitalization...
...make their literary fortune. Polished, aristocratic, neurasthenic, comfortably off, Edmond (27) and Jules (19) were an extraordinarily close corporation. They not only lived together in nearly continuous amity until death dissolved their partnership, they collaborated in all their writing, thought alike on nearly every subject and kept a joint diary. Little of their 30-odd collaborations-plays, novels, history, criticism-has survived into the 20th Century, but their Journals may be counted on to keep their memories green. Much of that racy record is still withheld. From the material now available Lewis Galantiere last week offered U. S. readers...
Sued. By Cinemactress Barbara Stanwyck: her onetime husband, Funnyman Frank Fay; for a division of joint property held at the time of their divorce in December 1935; in Los Angeles...
Traveling a rocky road beset by amendments since hearings began last May, the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill, spurred on by Franklin Roosevelt, nevertheless leaped over barrier after barrier, seemed headed for enactment. Out of the Joint Congressional Committee chairmanned by Senator Black and the late Representative Connery, this "little NRA" jumped: 1) the Senate Education and Labor Committee. 2) passive resistance by the A. F. of L., later modified, 3) the Senate by 56 to 28, 4) Congresswoman Mary T. Norton's House Labor Committee...