Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spring was forced to abandon his threat of a fifth Eastern railroad system, he had an option on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway. This is a 600-mi., Y-shaped road joining Pennsylvania's soft coal and steel districts to Lakes Erie and Ontario. It lay as an important joint for him to connect his Delaware & Hudson, the Wabash (which he controlled) and the Lehigh Valley (which he thought he controlled). It was a pretty railroad layout and promised to compete with the New York Central, the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio established systems, and with the Van Sweringen brothers...
...correct another misapprehension, the Republican Club and the Hoover-for-President Club are joint organizations, differing only in so far as the former is a permanent Republican organization, while the latter, with the present campaign as its sole interest, makes a special appeal to Hoover Democrats and Independents. The two clubs have carefully avoided any duplications in membership...
Forty Harvard professors from the College and Law School in a joint statement have expressed their support of Governor Alfred E. Smith for the presidency. The statement is as follows...
...fortnight much can be done; there was much to do. There was the question of remarriage of divorced persons; the place & work of women in the Church; a $4,000,000 budget; there was an impending controversy over a joint commission's recommendation that healing by faith be commended.; the election of a President of the House of Deputies* but principally there was the Prayer Book. More than 30,000 churchmen had signed a memorial protesting against the proposed exclusion of the 39 articles of religion, heritage of the English Church. The 39 articles, said the protestants, give...
...mien." He quoted figures: "During the past 25 years, the number of branch banks has practically doubled each five years."* He classified, adroitly: "We still have the nation's financial business carried on by literally 57 varieties of banking institutions (48 different kinds of state banks, national banks, federal joint stock land banks, federal land banks, federal reserve banks, federal intermediate credit banks, postal savings system, mutual savings banks, trust companies, private banks...