Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obsolete" nitrate plant; 5) a capable board of managers believing in government operation could not be found; 6) the Government would be competing with its citizens. To take the sting out of his veto President Hoover suggested that Alabama and Tennessee as the two states primarily concerned name a joint commission with "full authority to lease the plants at Muscle Shoals in the interest of the local community and agriculture generally." The Senate sustained (34-to-49) the veto after the President had been roundly abused on the ground that he made Muscle Shoals into a "gold brick" and then...
...years ago Columbia Valley farmers protested to Washington, D. C. (TIME, April 22, 1929). Washington forwarded the protest to the International Joint Commission to which, heretofore, only waterway controversies have been referred. Last week the State Department was happy to announce that the Commission had unanimously recommended: 1) payment by the smelting company of $350,000 to the U. S. to be distributed among the damaged husbandmen, orchardists, stockmen; 2) payment for all possible future damage. It was reported that the smelter is now spending $10,000,000 to abate its deadly fumes. Full of satisfaction, although the Commission...
...indictments charged that on March 31, 1928, the day that Mr. Caldwell and Col. Lea bought the Knoxville Journal (now in receivership [TIME, Dec. 22]), Banker Ramsey, aided and abetted by his two friends both of whom were large stockholders in the bank, wilfully misapplied $98,000 to the joint Caldwell-Lea account. In addition to this charge of violating the Federal banking law, the indictments further claimed that the three friends had conspired to violate Federal banking law by hiding the bank's condition...
...John Dewey, William James lecturer at Harvard, and professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, of Columbia University, has consented to speak on an undetermined date before a meeting to be held under the joint auspices of the Liberal and Socialist Clubs. The subject of the talk will be on some political topic of interest to undergraduates. The meeting will be open to all members of the University...
...question. As an answer Congress had sent him a bill about the Government's $135,000,000 power-&-nitrate plant on the Tennessee River.* Carefully he pondered the measure. Carefully his Secretary of War pondered it. Carefully his Attorney General pondered it. They scratched their collective heads in joint perplexity...