Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Authors McNary & Haugen. The Senator joint-author of the McNary-Haugen bill is Charles Linza McNary who did not stay down on the Oregon farm where he was born. Leland Stanford Jr. University (Calif.) and private tutors educated him. A lawyer and gentleman, he became Dean of an Oregon law school, whence he was elevated to the bench. In Washington, the characteristic thing about him is not that he is Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee but that he is a member of the Committee on Committees. The latter requires political finesse, conversation (not oratory), the dispassionate manipulation of other...
Next day, however, Mr. Kellogg said something original-something more than Sir Austen had been willing to say. He said the U. S. would consider a diplomatic China to exist if the chief contending factions would agree on a joint delegation to represent China. This was a great advance, but Mr. Kellogg did not put it in writing, and there is no immediate likelihood that the Chinese factions will agree...
...Hartford, Conn., Rosa Ponselle gave a joint concert with her sister Carmela. Four thousand people applauded. Between the acts they gossiped. Only a few years ago these girls were unknown . . . common school education . . . vaudeville songsters. But Rosa came to Manhattan, took singing lessons from William Thorner. He, recognizing talent, visited Gatti-Casazza, announced a "find." "Let me hear her," answered the Director. He did, was impressed, advised her to work up one or two roles. She made her debut with Caruso, after six months of vocal instruction. Carmela is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company. The Hartford concert...
...joint endeavor of Harvard and the Boston Public Library in establishing the greatest business library the world has ever known in the new school at Cambridge which Mr. Baker has made possible is of double significance. By this joining forces with the collegians the city of Boston has demonstrated a friendly appreciation of what the university can do for her business interests and a spirit of cooperation in a very practical case that will work for the advancement of both...
...Saturday, the Eastern Massachusetts Section of the Classical Association of New England will hold a joint meeting with the Classical Club of Greater Boston...