Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honoring the birthday (150th) of their party's father. But, to the outrage of Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, the Democrats stole the Lincoln Day show by laying on the biggest celebration of them all, right there in Washington. Democratic leaders in both houses set up a solemn joint session to hear the U.S. Army band play patriotic tunes, the U.S. Coast Guard cadet chorus sing Civil War songs (Dixie, Battle Hymn of the Republic), and Actor Fredric March read the Gettysburg Address...
With six months still to go before the next changeover in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon brass choir last week was tootling up introductory choruses of When the Chiefs Come Marchin' In. Top names in the game of musical chairs to be played next August...
...Force General Nathan F. Twining, 61, old bomber pilot, completing his first two-year term as Joint Chiefs' chairman, has turned down tempting offers from private industry, will probably be named by President Eisenhower for a second term...
...Force General Thomas White, 57, the Joint Chiefs' newest member (appointed 1957) will stay on as Chief of Air Staff...
...however, the benign American military were interested in the mental stability of its potential servitors, it could either declare for a policy of Universal Military Training or for the establishment of a professionally attractive standing army. Neither thought seems to have much appeal for the Pentagon, possibly because the Joint Chiefs of Staff are less interested in the mental condition of American youth than they are in obtaining a "reasonable" level of military spending...