Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjudicate. In forming a common front on the eight points, the Army had done most of the giving, the Navy most of the taking. There would be no Chief of Staff of all the armed forces (who, it had been feared, might become "a man on horseback"); the Joint Chiefs would remain the top military directors; there would be a Council of Common Defense and a National Security Resources Board, as proposed in Ferdinand Eberstadt's Navy plan...
Missouri's mulish Representative Dewey Short reiterated the House position: "They don't need them, and I don't think they need the bill at all with the voluntary enlistments they are getting." This week, as the bill went to a joint House-Senate conference committee, the best anyone hoped for was a compromise which would set the lower age limit for draftees...
...Smith Brothers are pillars of their community; they run the finest gambling joint in Reno, Nev. Harold's Club (named for the older brother) earns more than a million silver dollars every year, making it the nation's biggest. The Smith boys are always ready to do something nice for people. They donated Reno's Catholic nursery, gave $5,000 to pay off the mortgage of the local Methodist church, spent more thousands for the Mormons, the Church of the Nazarene, the Negro Methodists. Last week the Smith Brothers, who never got through high school, were ready...
Keep a sharp eye on that sixty-five bucks, Mac. Unless the President shows an unusual amount of political courage, there's going to be a sudden shortage in your purchasing power. The OPA extension bill is now before a joint House-Senate conference committee, and the only real issue lies between hiking the whole ceiling out of sight or shooting it full of holes...
...court about a zillion times. What had he seen? Well, brother, he'd never seen no Gypsy Rose Lee dancing in the jury box. Just jerks he had to photograph. But since it was his life work he looked in again one day last week. Nope. The joint looked haunted. Nobody inside but a black-haired young guy, a blonde dame, and a lot of empty seats...