Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immediate reaction when George Fisher Baker, highly potent director of the corporation said last week: "I do riot take any stock in the rumors that the shares of the Steel Corporation will be split and put on a $4 or $5 basis." Ryan. Governors of an institution the joint resources of which total one billion dollars, the Board of Directors of the National City Bank of New York, last week sat in solemn conclave. The roster of the world's most potent bank includes the names of Capitalist N. F. Brady, Shipper P. A. S. Franklin, Soap...
Muscle Shoals. At the President's suggestion in his message last December, Congress passed a resolution directing a joint committee to receive bids and determine the best method of disposing of the Government's power-fertilizer producing political white elephant. The committee reported (TIME, May 10, MUSCLE SHOALS), but not unanimously, and Congress just couldn't find time to settle the difficult problem at this session...
...joint Collection and Distribution Committee composed of U. S. and Soviet Russian citizens was reported set up at Moscow. Its duties: 1) To collect 25,000 Russian Jews and distribute them advantageously about the new Republic as the nucleus of a future Zion. 2) To collect from U. S. Jews funds for distribution among their pioneer brethren of the new Republic...
...Senate had received from the House-reported with an .amendment. The amendment was the addition to it of the entire Haugen bill (defeated by the House) with very little change. If the Senate were to pass the bill as Mr. McNary wished, the House might consent to a joint conference to arrange the differences or it might, as seemed probable, reject the Haugen bill just as it was rejected before. If by any chance the House should accept the Haugen bill, it was reasonably certain that the President would veto it. The most the proponents of the bill could really...
...gain at least temporary backing for his "save the franc" program. During this hectic week, Premier Briand found time to deny once more that he is engaged to be married?after 64 years of bachelorhood. He told reporters of three young Manhattan women who recently sent him a joint proposal?he to choose from their inclosed photographs which he preferred to wed. "I deemed their letter a most charming and delicate attention," said M. Briand, "yet I could not reply without establishing a dangerous precedent . . . helas...