Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Today. Republican Congressmen were quick to demand that the joint Senate-House committee investigating the Pearl Harbor defeat have a look at the letter. Governor Dewey said his copy would remain in his safe at Albany. He referred all questions about it to General Marshall...
...Italian reparations. On the question of Italian colonies the three powers reversed the positions each had taken at San Francisco on trusteeships. Then, the U.S. (thinking of Pacific is lands) and Britain had stressed one-power administration of dependent areas; Russia (playing to world opinion) had fought for joint trusteeships...
...Only last spring the C.I.O. News trumpeted: "IT'S INDUSTRIAL PEACE FOR THE POSTWAR PERIOD!" Labor Leaders Phil Murray and William Green and the Chamber of Commerce's Eric Johnston had promised: "Management-labor unity . . . must be continued in the postwar. To this end, we dedicate our joint efforts." But the National Association of Manufacturers had not joined in, and such fine words had buttered no parsnips...
...Italians in London would negotiate as hard as they could to keep Eritrea and Somaliland, might be content there as elsewhere to see joint trusteeships which would maintain an "open door to Africa." Of Trees & Brooks. The Trieste issue had descended to a technical problem much too minute to be handled at the Truman-Stalin-Attlee level. The city would almost certainly be internationalized, but its ultimate fate would depend on where lines were drawn in its hinterland. Racial and historical factors moved strings back & forth over detailed maps of Venetia Julia province. The watercourses were most important, because...
From his charred palace, Emperor Hirohito, attended by a grim-miened bodyguard (see cut), drove to the Diet building. There, from his gold-and-maroon throne in the House of Peers, he addressed a joint session of the legislature. Tears welled in his eyes and euphemisms from his lips as he spoke not of defeat or surrender but of "cessation of hostilities . . . termination of the war . . . extraordinary measure. . . ." His command to his subjects: "remain cool, maintain self-composure, exercise patience and circumspection . . . win the confidence of the world . . . make manifest the innate glory of Japan's national policy...