Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joint sub-committee composed of four operators and four miners most of the bargaining was done. Samuel D. Warriner led the operators; John L. Lewis the miners. Rinaldo Cappelini, radical President-elect of the United Mine Workers, District 1, was not a member of this body. The chief discussion was over the " checkoff" system whereby the coal companies collect dues for the unions out of miners' pay. The operators did not openly deny the demand of the miners for the checkoff, but asked a great many questions indicating their opposition to the idea...
Mile. Lenglen won a second title on the same day when, paired with Elizabeth Ryan, American resident of England, she retained joint claim to the women's doubles championship at the expense of Misses Austin and Colyer, English, both under...
Babylonia. The joint expedition of Oxford University and the Field Museum, Chicago, under Prof. S. Langdon, has uncovered the ruins of Kish, an early capital of the Accadian kings, eight miles east of the site of Babylon, including the great tower of the temple to the war god Ilbaba, built about...
...would purchase an interest in the Armour Grain Company (one of the large grain marketing concerns of the country). The remaining ownership of the company would be acquired later by subscription or by application of the profits to paying off the present owners. Meanwhile the company, controlled by a joint board of directors, would act as a cooperative marketing agency for the farmers. Mr. George Marcy, President of the Company and expert in grain marketing, would continue to direct the Company's operations for five years...
...protests at once went up from several organizations. The Joint Amnesty Committee and the General Defense Committee of the I. W. W. protested that all the wartime "political prisoners" should have been released. The President's reason in releasing the 27 was that they had committed crimes with their tongues only, whereas the other 21 had been convicted of criminal deeds. The Committee on Free Speech of the National Civic Federation and the American Civil Liberties Union also protested because the men released had not been pardoned unconditionally, but only on condition of good behavior and without restoration...