Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Refused to enact a House rider to the $1.2 billion Labor Department and Federal Security Agency appropriations for 1946-47. The rider, which would have withdrawn the protection of the Wagner Act from thousands of U.S. packinghouse and agricultural workers, was sent to a joint Senate-House committee for further discussion...
...branch. An eight-week period at summer camp is required before the commission is granted. All expenses are paid by the government and each man will receive the pay of the sixth grade of the army while at camp. Before the war, Harvard and Yale students went to a joint encampment at Fort Ethan Allen in Vermont, but McClure doubts if this will be continued...
After World War II a joint Anglo-American inquiry committee recommended that 100,000 more Jews be admitted into Palestine in 1946. Zionists took to organized violence to spur British action. The British answered by trying to suppress the Jewish underground...
...Worse. Bidault then offered a complicated compromise calling for Big Four plus U.N. plus joint Italo-Yugoslav rule of Trieste for ten years. (Senator Vandenberg called it "something out of Gilbert & Sullivan . . . more government per square inch than ever established anywhere.") Nobody liked the plan, not even Bidault; but all agreed to study...
This week the Army & Navy announced that they had set up a joint scientific research committee to coordinate their research. Its chairman: Vannevar Bush. Other members are Generals Jacob Devers and Carl Spaatz, Assistant Navy Secretary W. John Kenny, Admiral DeWitt Ramsey...