Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House orders was regarded as news indeed. Even more surprising did it seem when Leader Barkley, setting to work just as efficiently in the opposite direction, promptly produced his own resolution for investigating TVA, rushed it through the Senate. To pacify the House, Leader Barkley compromised on a joint investigating committee of five Representatives and five Senators, to be provided with full authority and a $50,000 expense budget. Rabidly pro-TVA blocs in both Houses were pleased that the committee was directed to investigate not only the administration of TVA but also activities of hostile power companies...
...mankind throughout the world.' In accordance with this purpose the aim of the trustees has been to maintain the work of the Foundation on an international plane without consideration of flags or political doctrines or creeds or sects. . . . We are all of us, under whatever flag, the joint beneficiaries of the intellectual property of the race...
...Bureau of the Budget, whose director would be responsible directly to the President instead of to the Secretary of the Treasury as he is at present. Auditing Federal expense accounts would become the job of an entirely new official: an Auditor General, to be appointed by a new Joint Congressional Committee on Public Accounts. Object of this change is to make spending and auditing functions independent of each other (as they are in most well-run private businesses), insure prompter, sounder Government accounting...
Faced with its impressive omnibus, a joint Congressional committee last year soon fell to squabbling, finally split apart to work on it separately. The House Committee divided the bill into four sections, passed two last August. The Senate bill, introduced by Joe Robinson last June, was rewritten by South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes and reintroduced in January, finally emerged from committee last month. Last week, the Senate settled down to work on it with a will...
Sensational father-daughter joint suicides were reported throughout German Austria. Tyrolean Tycoon Friedrich Reitlinger, ardent Catholic and financial backer of the Heimwehr, had his daughter shoot him, then herself. At Innsbruck a 69-year-old university professor, Gustave Bayer, Catholic member of the Heimwehr, and his daughter swallowed overdoses of morphine, turned on the gas. Vienna's collection of world-famed Jewish medical men was thinned as specialists and hospital heads chose death by their own hands. Other prominent suicides were bespectacled Baron Odo Neustaedter-Stuermer, a Heimwehr leader under Dollfuss; Financier Gottfried Kunwald and Dr. Otto Russo, director...