Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Bilbo used it, on the expiration of Governor Conner's term, to get his friend Hugh White elected Governor. When Governor White gave Pat Harrison credit for getting big Federal appropriations for Mississippi, including a $42,000,000 highway fund, the Senior Senator stood up before a joint session of the Legislature, shared the credit with Senator Bilbo and Mississippi's Representatives. Thus all went well until Senator Bilbo was well entrenched. Then last January President Roosevelt nominated Judge Edwin Ruthven Holmes, a son-in-law of Pat Harrison's old patron, the late, great Senator...
...Louis' big Municipal Auditorium Convention Hall during the fortnight gathered the Southern Baptist Convention, the Northern Baptist Convention and, for the second time since 1845, joint "Fellowship Meetings...
...Sunday night last March occurred a world cinema premiere. When it was over President Roosevelt, brimming with enthusiasm, turned to his Congressional guests with a bright idea. He would, he said, send a print of this film with a covering message to Congress, which would view it at a joint session...
...Chicago, Keeshin set about filing joint tariff schedules with six railroads as the result of an alliance agreed upon fortnight ago for truck-rail freight service, such as Keeshin started with the Rock Island line in 1934. About June 8, the railroads will begin picking up loaded Keeshin trailers on flat cars, carrying them by rail to their destination, where Keeshin tractors will make final delivery. The six: Baltimore & Ohio; Reading; Central of New Jersey; Alton; Rock Island; Chicago Great Western...
...Connecticut Yankee", joint product of Mark Twain and Will Rogers, flashes again its jolly anachronisms. Myrna Loy and Frank Albertson do the supporting, along with a host of telephones, automobiles, tanks, and machine guns. There is many an occasion for a belly-laugh, but one can't help feeling that the lavish spilling of blood militates a bit against the gaiety. "Forgotten Faces" shows Herbert Marshall, up the river for murder, nevertheless preventing Gertrude Michael, his extremely naughty wife, from blackmailing their daughter, adopted into respectability. There are some telling bits of psychological suggestion along the harrowing, strident...