Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted with amendments a resolution providing that a joint committee of Congress should arrange to lease Muscle Shoals (q. v.) by vote of 51 to 26. (Resolution returned to the House...
...Passed the War Department appropriation bill. (Bill went to joint conference...
...have accepted of course. And why not? Some years ago their workers struck and received all their demands except recognition of their union. Within a year, helpless without a union, all their gains had been taken from them. The employers are united in a local council and operate a joint employment office. There are no valid reasons on which to oppose concerted action by their employees...
...This family of seven lived in three small rooms, only one of which was lighted by a single gas jet. Most of the heat came from the cook stove. Only one room had windows. For this mite they paid a rental of about $26 a month out of a joint weekly wage...
...suffragists called the attention of laymen to the fact that Miss Christabel Pankhurst is by no means to be confused with her mother (Emmeline) or her sister (Estelle). Christabel is the Editor of Britannia and a joint founder with her mother of the British Women's Party. Mrs. Pankhurst remains active as Honorary Treasurer of the Women's Social and Political Union. Estelle is perhaps the most violent and versatile of the three. She edits The Workers' Dreadnought and Germinal. She has "hunger struck" 14 times, and always had to be forcibly fed. She has founded: 1) Clinics, cost-price...