Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy felt it was outnumbered on the Joint Chiefs of Staff; time after time General Omar Bradley and the Air Force's Hoyt Vandenberg voted 2 to i against the Navy's Denfeld. The Navy also had no confidence in the leadership of Navy Secretary Matthews, who was Johnson's choice. Matthews cheerily admitted, when he took office that he had never commanded anything bigger than a rowboat...
...Military Committee promptly got down to work the next day under Chairman Omar Bradley, head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Russian officials in the four-power city control board had lately consented to a joint battle against the potato bug. They agreed that East & West should honor each other's postage stamps-and then urged the West Berliners to buy stamps cheaper with soft Soviet marks ("Every agreement we make, we lose," lamented a U.S. official...
Senator George D. Aiken, leader in the fight for farm supports, received a serious setback this weekend when a Joint Conference Committee of Congress agreed tentatively to adopt a flat 90 percent of parity for the support of basic farm crops. But immediately after, the Committee withdrew its decision, leaving Senator Aiken confused, uncertain, and unhappy...
...Radcliffe Dance Group reverses the joint-education program at 4:15 p.m. this afternoon in the Agassiz Living Room when the society opens its ranks to men for the first time...