Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Is Correct. He had been pretty busy with the maritime strike (see Labor) and just ordinary politicking, when Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace brought around a speech he had written. The speech was to be delivered at a joint Manhattan rally of C.LO.'s P.A.C. and the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions. Harry Truman, looking toward November, felt he ought to cultivate those fellows a little. They had grown a little cool toward him. He glanced at the speech, told Mr. Wallace it was O.K. and hardly gave it another thought...
Defense Minister Douglas Abbott announced that Churchill, Manitoba had been chosen as an experimental station to test and develop military equipment. The Canadian press said that the recommendation had been made by the Joint U.S.Canada Permanent Defense Board, that eventually 5,000 Canadians and 5,000 U.S. troops may be stationed at Churchill. Washington denied that U.S. troops would be sent there, said only military observers would go to Churchill...
...ever faced--the government. The fine hands of the potent labor lobby and the equally powerful shipping bloc can be seen in the two-way squeeze applied to the Merchant Navy idea (abandoned in the first year of the war), government control over personnel training (abandoned for a joint government-union program) and public ownership of the ships, themselves. This last phase of the "planned" wartime program gave way to a tangled arrangement whereby Liberties and later Victory ships were chartered to private shipping firms as a prelude to eventual purchase...
...Philadelphia, a decision will be made which will have far-reaching significance. The plan of union with the Presbyterian Church, negotiated by a joint commission of the two churches, will be presented to the convention with the request that it be submitted to the respective churches 'for study'. ... A minority of the Episcopal members of this joint commission has issued a statement opposing even so tentative a commitment to the proposed plan of union, on the alleged ground that it 'radically distorts the religion of our Lord' and is equivalent to the 'giving...
...season's oddest bit of casting is Pat O'Brien as an art expert employed by a stuffy museum. One night he barges drunkenly into the museum's chaste lobby with a boozy breath and every indication of an intent to wreck the joint. Has he lost his mind? More likely, he is being framed by the mysterious gang of forgers who hope to snatch the museum's loan collection of masterpieces...