Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted a resolution creating a Joint Committee to investigate the pay of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps...
...Wickersham report's reception at the Capitol was not exactly as the President had wished. He had asked for a Joint Committee of Congress to study changes in the administration of Prohibition enforcement. The Senate had voted him what he wanted. Last week the House got the studs, refused to authorize a Joint Committee. Speaker Longworth explained: "The leaders decided they did not believe in a Joint Committee which would take preliminary jurisdiction away from the Committees of the house. ... It is our purpose to take up each legislative measure and have it acted on by independent committees...
...Nomination by Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio of Senator Borah as chairman of the prospective joint committee of Congress to study Prohibition enforcement machinery. "His discussion shows he is familiar with every aspect of the problem. He could do a 'service for 'Dry America,' " said Senator Fess. ¶ Involved explanations by Attorney-General Mitchell to the effect that since March one U. S. district attorney has been ousted, five forced to resign. Senator Borah thought this record "unimpressive." ¶ Muffled thunder over Capitol Hill of the storm of Prohibition debate, gathering during the holidays, about...
...world. On the dock the two men exchanged elaborate, guttural compliments, for Herr Stimming frequently crosses in Dr. Cuno's ships-the idea being that one eye on the enemy is worth two on oneself. Stepping briskly into Herr Stimming's office, the General Directors barked their joint statement at a bristle-haired male stenographer who neatly transcribed it thus...
...must recall that when President Hoover's disarmament plan was first broached its two chief points were: 1) reduction, not mere limitation of armaments; and 2) reduction according to a mathematical formula, the "Hoover yardstick." Furthermore the principal achievement of Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald at Washington was their public joint statement exalting the Kellogg Pact as the cornerstone of peace and disarmament, and their private decision that the question of "freedom of the seas" should not be raised at the London conference...