Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reasons in Person."Mr. Speaker, Members of the House of Representatives. . . . Under the Constitution, I address this message to the House of Representatives, but at the same time I am glad that the Senate by coming here in joint session gives me opportunity to give my reasons in person to the other house of the Congress. . . . With your permission, I should like to continue from time to time to act as my own messenger...
Last autumn the Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank was stayed from foreclosing a $9,000 mortgage on William W. Radford's 170-acre Kentucky farm by a brand-new device for scaling down farm debts and forestalling foreclosures-the Frazier-Lemke Act, a non-Administration measure filibustered to passage by Senator Huey P. Long in the last days of the 73rd Congress. That law permitted a farmer to declare himself bankrupt and keep his farm by having its current value appraised, then paying this sum to his creditors within five years. Farmer Radford got his debt scaled down...
...forbade his being a boss. Sherman Bowles promptly fired him. Out, on their president's heels, walked every other typesetter in the four newspaper shops. Editors of both evening papers gathered together what type had been set, borrowed some type forms from the morning editions, rolled out a joint edition...
Meeting yesterday at the Weston Golf Club, the Harvard Engineering Society, New England section, held its annual outing in a joint session with the undergraduate section of the society...
Announcing the annual joint spring outing of the Harvard Engineering Society, New England and University Sections, Ernest Jacoby '32, Secretary, has issued a program of the events to take place on Thursday, at the Weston Golf Club...