Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan proposed by the Student Legislature would have done away with the prior Committee investigation of a speaker. Instead, the sponsoring student group would be held responsible for the maintenance of the by-law. Infractions would be judged by a Joint Judiciary group after the meeting...
...Capitol Hill one morning last week, members of the Senate Armed Services Committee sat sedately along one side of a big conference table, ready to pass judgment on the men whom Dwight Eisenhower had nominated to replace the present Joint Chiefs of Staff. Across the table, nervously awaiting their ordeal by interrogation, sat the four beribboned nominees (see cut)-prospective Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Arthur Radford, the Navy's schoolmasterish-looking Admiral Robert Carney, the Air Force's handsome, white-maned General Nathan Twining and the Army's General Matthew Ridgway, stiffly erect in paratroop...
Finally, Stuart Symington braced Navy Spokesman Radford with a single pointed question. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs, would he work as hard for the Army and Air Force as for the Navy? Answered Radford: "I will work primarily for the U.S., and I will do my best not to favor any particular service...
...Figueira, a gambler named William Angell, and Bookmakers John and Francis Sullivan sang to a grand jury in return for a promise of leniency from the D.A. Angell told how the mayor, with Figueira's connivance, had raided his competitors, had hushed up a robbery at his dice joint. Angell told of paying off in $500 chunks. Figueira testified that Peirce had shut down bookies who did not deal with the Sullivans, while the Sullivans flourished and prospered...
...sooner had AEC brought out its proposals than Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy announced that it would hold hearings on the plan within the next month. Even if Congress changes the act, private industry may well move slowly. Said Gordon Dean: "A nuclear plant built on the basis of today's technology could not compete with conventional power." Yet . . . there is hope and "considerable optimism that economic nuclear power can be attained within a few years...