Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firm believer in military budget cuts for economy's sake, but now he is saying in Cabinet meetings that every item of expense must be examined in the light of the new bomb threat. Last week, in a public speech, Humphrey went a step farther: the new Joint Chiefs of Staff must produce a defense plan that will be a "real new product." Said Humphrey: "It won't be done just by putting some additional chrome on the bumper. We have to have a brand new model. . . and still [spend] less money...
...mixed blood from participation in "white"' elections and to limit their political representation to four white M.P.s. Two of Malan's schemes to achieve this had already been declared unconstitutional by South Africa's appeal court, so last week the old (79) preacher-politician called a joint session of the two houses of Parliament and tried to do the job constitutionally. But Parliament, for all its overwhelming sympathy with Malan's racial policies, gave him 16 votes less than the two-thirds majority legally required for a constitutional change...
Married. Rosemary Turner McMahon, 36, widow of the late Brien McMahon, Democratic U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1945-52) and head of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; and Baron Robert Silvercruys, 59, Belgian Ambassador to the U.S.; he for the first time, she for the second; in a quiet church ceremony; in Washington...
...hoped I would have something to say on political issues, but this doesn't happen to be the time ... If we , point out the Republicans' errors, they might mend their ways, and we would not have the chance to take them to task." This week, at a joint A.F.L.-C.I.O. Labor Day rally in Detroit, Harry made it clear that "give 'em hell" time was here again...
...ranges v. 1,400,000. As for the pivotal U.S. auto industry, which accounts for about 7.6% of U.S. manufactured-goods production, the predicted increase of 24 million population by 1960 will include some 10 million more customers of car-buying age (19 and over). All told, Congress' Joint Committee on the Economic Report has estimated, the needs for industrial expansion as well as public works will require a total expenditure of $500 billion...