Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deciding that joint congressional receptions were too crowded, President & Mrs. Hoover set a precedent by holding a reception for members of the House and their ladies alone. Present for the first time at a White House function-although his wife's attendance at a White House tea two years ago caused a ruction-Representative Oscar De Priest, Chicago Negro, shook hands with the President, retired with Mrs. De Priest to the East Room, leaving to the other guests the option of speaking to or ignoring them. Mrs. De Priest was gratified when Secretary Lament's wife, a fellow...
Forthwith the Alabama House of Representatives passed a joint resolution declaring that: "The said J. Thomas Heflin has during the greater part of his tenure of office . . . made Alabama the laughing stock of the Union by his bigotry, lack of religious tolerance and the lack of many of the courtesies expected between one gentleman and another." The resolution expressed "condemnation of the very poor sportsmanship exhibited in being unwilling to admit like a man that he was defeated in a fair election...
...that Congress can from time to time alter Prohibition to fit changing conditions. Having voiced that suggestion, and in the absence of a positive agreement having (all except Commissioner Lemann) signed their negative list of "Conclusions & Recommendations," the Commissioners sought to preserve their self-respect by appending to the joint Report their separate, personal opinions and convictions...
...Virginia and South Carolina when he can get away from Washington. With Lord William Percy of England and Dr. Frank Michler Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History, he has studied birds in South America. As president of the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries & Game and of a joint commission on Forests & Wild Life, he helped develop his own State's efficient conservation policy. In a report to a conservation group he once wrote: "Soft living is conducive to soft bodies and dull minds. . . . There is one effective cure for this tendency to Idleness-back to the country...
...Preiffer, curator of the Semitic Museum, will give a lecture this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Fogg Art Museum, entitled "Excavations Undertaken by the Joint Expedition of the British Museum and the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania at Ur of the Chaldees". The talk is in connection with the current exhibition of objects excavated at Ur of the Chaldess now on display at Fogg...