Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, President Harry Truman gravely confirmed the bleak facts of mounting tension between the U.S. and Soviet Russia. He summoned a special joint session of Congress to hear a report from him in person on the critical foreign situation...
With the air of a man whose patience has run out, Defense Secretary Forrestal packed off to Key West last week, taking the country's Joint Chiefs of Staff* with him. "I hope to get them to come to an accommodation of views," he said. "If they don't, I shall have to make my own decisions...
...Lawrence Seaway proposal back to the Foreign Relations Committee on February 27, smothering it for this session, a long and respectable tradition was once more upheld. The St. Lawrence question has arrived on Congressional floors in various guises in the past--as a treaty with Canada, as a joint resolution of both Houses, and as an amendment to another bill--and invariably it has fallen before an unfavorable vote...
...little serious effort to use the Ruhr for what it was-the key to Europe's recovery, the key to control of Europe. First the British alone occupied it, although they did not have the resources needed to get it going again. Then it was brought into the joint U.S.-British economic administration called Bizonia. The French refused to enter any arrangements for the rehabilitation of the Ruhr, because they wanted assurance that the area would be separated from Germany and placed under international political control. Britain and the U.S. knew that this would not work...
...bonus" scheme to buy their babies and send them to German homes. She had four children by two previous husbands, Heiszmeyer seven from a previous marriage. In 1940, when they announced their wedding in the Berlin press, the pair declared, "We have given our eleven children a joint home." Later their family was increased to twelve...