Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assisted by Benjamin F. Wright, chairman of Harvard's Government Department, the Student Government sent out questionnaires and discovered that only five out of 579 "joint instructees" thought that tutorial should be limited to Dean's List students, and only 14 thought it should be limited exclusively to honors candidates...
...experience has shown that the "committee method" exemplified by the Joint Chiefs of Staff is no substitute for truly unified direction. Even under the stress of war, said the Chief of Staff, agreement among the Joint Chiefs was reached "at times only by numerous compromises and after long delays...
...Although the Joint Chiefs setup still exists, Congress is now working to fix the postwar strength of the Navy and the Marine Corps, and "the War Department has been neither consulted nor informed...
...Columbus Avenue was already established as THE jazz spot of Boston. Manager Stevens Edward Connolly did S.R.O. business with Sabby Lewis, Pete Brown, and Frank Newton alternating as bandstand headliners to the accompaniment of a bar policy that hit the ceiling at six bits. In fact, the joint became so congested with characters that in early '43, moving day was declared to larger quarter on Mass. Ave., just across the bridge from Symphony...
...help the Government do its big job, the committee recommended the appoint ment of 1) a President's commission on full employment, composed of a "small working body of the ablest men to be found"; and 2) a joint congressional committee on full employment. They would work out a "coordinated Government program for high level employment," lay down the policies to carry...