Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reply at all and to observe to correspondents: "Between co-signatories of the Pact, it can never be rightly thought unfriendly that one nation call to the attention of another its obligations or the dangers to peace which may from time to time arise. . . . In the language of the joint statement issued by the President of the U. S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain on Oct. 10 last, 'both our governments resolve to accept the peace pact not only as a declaration of good intentions but as a positive obligation to direct national policy in accordance with...
...amuse himself and guests often Speaker Longworth plays the violin, plays it well. But he would not fiddle at a fire. House Joint Resolution No. 133 gave the Speaker a splendid chance to contrast with the Senate's sloth his own House's prized efficiency. H. J. Res. 133 was the measure providing the 1% income tax reduction called for by President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 9). The Ways & Means Committee had given it a favorable report in 30 minutes. For its discussion on the floor the Speaker allowed the House just three hours. To the debate...
...This joint-ownership ceased last July. Señor Patiño asked Lead to get out- perhaps because Señor Patiño's other English customers for tin objected to his partnership with a lead manufacturer. Regretfully, Lead's President Edward J. Cornish got out. Last week President Cornish got Lead into Associated Lead Manufacturers, Ltd., Great Britain's largest fabricator of lead products. (The deal involved a large but not majority block of stock.) Thus, National Lead is still Señor Patiño's most important customer, with results perhaps...
...boxlike, ether-wave instrument invented and played upon (motion of the hands before the instrument affects the ether waves, regulates pitch, tone, volume) by Russian Leon Theremin (TIME, Sept. 30). His recent sale of his patent to the Radio Corp. of America accounts for the new joint name given the instrument...
...last week in the predicament of planning to move and having no place to go. Since last winter it has been understood that a new Metropolitan opera house would be the centre of a midtown development projected by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (TIME, Dec. 31). But last week a joint statement issued by Realtor Rockefeller and the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked to believe that, after years of inaction...