Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a joint resolution introduced by Nebraska's Norris appropriating $150,000 for investigation by the Federal Trade Commission of propaganda circulated by private utilities against public ownership, after adopting an amendment offered by Utah's King broadening its scope to include an investigation of propaganda used by Government agencies against private ownership. Sent it to the House...
...Passed on May 20, decennial of Lindbergh's departure on his flight to Paris (see p. 45), a joint resolution designating May 28 as National Aviation Day. Sent it to the President...
...Chelsea figurines, old Crown Derby dinner services, Georgian silver, Oriental table screens, crystal candelabra, needlepoint armchairs, Elizabethan joint-stools, satinwood bedsteads, Jacobean armchairs, cut-glass fingerbowls, Flemish oak chests, potted palms, tooled leather wastebaskets and bronze andirons, they saw enough to stock all the dealers in Manhattan. Of the great art which legend maintained was "Inisfada's" glory, they saw little. Artistically respectable by most current standards was the garden-sculpture of Malvina Hoffman, auctioned off in situ among the rose bushes. For the rest, it appeared that the Bradys, in their assiduous years of collecting, had amassed...
...time when the American film audiences are in need of a few pictures about fallen women. American morals, especially New York morals, especially the morals of rich New Yorkers and provincials visiting New York, are definitely low, as everybody knows. If they were not, there would be no "clip joint" racketeers like the one who is the villian of this piece. If he were not in it Miss Davis could not be wronged. And that is her specialty, the thing she does before all other actresses realistically playing the wronged and fallen woman...
...somewhat leery of the New Deal. Respected abroad and an integral part of the civic scenery at home, with a brand-new Pulitzer Prize for their trophy room (see p. 41), the two Suns step off into their second century with a Sunday circulation of 221,389, a joint readership of 298,458 every...