Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman Lewis Strauss was nettled by the repeated charges of Democrats on the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. Sum of the charges: the AEC spent so much time squabbling over the Dixon-Yates contract that it was neglecting its primary mission of weapons development and production...
Last week Strauss replied. Before New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton Anderson, chairman of the joint committee, could start questioning Strauss, some AEC aides entered the hearing room, struggling with five big boxes packed tight with documents. They set the boxes down behind Strauss. Another aide deposited six manila envelopes, tied in a neat packet, on the table beside Strauss...
Strauss also defended himself against a charge of a more personal nature. Last Feb. 1 he had told the joint committee that he could recall no AEC discussions of Dixon-Yates since November. On this, Strauss was challenged by AEC Democratic Commissioner Thomas E. Murray (who last year voted for Dixon-Yates, later changed his mind). The AEC, said Murray, had in fact discussed Dixon-Yates on Feb. 1, the very day that Strauss made his statement. Last week Strauss explained that he had been late for the AEC session on that day, had not engaged in the Dixon-Yates...
Recognizable Photostats. Then station WHDH's lawyers introduced the report of the 1951 New York State Joint Legislative Committee on comics. In the record were eight pages of photostats of Capp cartoons under the heading: "Sexually suggestive cartoons and in some instances semihidden pornography." Capp had no trouble recognizing the photostats as the same ones Fisher has been passing around. Exploded Capp: "These are forgeries . . . We conducted an investigation of the source of the forgeries. We are in the last stage of finding the forger." Furthermore, the exhibits were not taken from his newspaper strip, but from comic books...
...merger, which was worked out by the Joint A.F. of L.-C.I.O. Unity Committee, has been in the making for a long time. In June, 1954, the committee recommended as the first step toward its goal, a no-raiding agreement. Then, last Wednesday the charter for the new federation was completed, but it must still be ratified by both the A.F. of L. and the C.I.O. at their conventions next fall...