Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver his address on the State of the Union to a joint session of Congress that night. That address was also to be broadcast at the best radio hour...
...promptly flooded with news of the prodigious feats of organization, diplomacy and greathearted endurance by which a modest U. S. engineer was keeping an entire nation alive. When Mr. Hoover went home to be U. S. Food Administrator, Ben Allen went with him. Their joint efforts added a new word, "Hooverize," to the national vocabulary, made Mr. Hoover and his food edicts an intimate part of the daily life of every man, woman & child in the land. By 1920 Mr. Hoover bulked large enough in the public mind to be discussed seriously for the Presidency despite the fact that...
...time Justice of the New York Supreme Court, is the original Roosevelt man. He picked Franklin D. Roosevelt as a candidate for the State Senate in 1910, nominated him for the Presidency in Chicago in 1932. For more than a year Judge Mack has been counsel to a joint legislative committee investigating New York State public utility holding companies. He it was who, after trying in vain for six months to locate Associated Gas & Electric's Howard Colwell Hopson, aptly quoted from The Scarlet Pimpernel last summer...
...Quai d'Orsay switchboard operator was told to get Stanley Baldwin on the telephone. She reported that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom was not to be reached by telephone even on the joint request of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the President of the Council of Ministers of France. There was nothing unusual in this. Mr. Baldwin often refuses to use the telephone. Instinct and experience warned him that he would be better able to make up his mind as to the justice and wisdom of dismembering Ethiopia after...
...American and Imperial Airways will be joint operators, each carrying mail one way, passengers both ways. The route will be New York, Montreal, Harbor Grace, Ireland, London, with an alternate passage via Bermuda, the Azores, Spain. The so-called "Lindbergh route" via Greenland and Iceland will not be used. Giant Clippers of the Martin and Sikorsky types will be flown by Pan American; Imperial may use the same planes or British planes of the same calibre...