Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reduction bill of 1926 last week ceased to exist. Instead there came into existence the "Revenue Act of 1926", for the tax reduction bill in the form in which it had been issued by the Joint Conference Committee (TIME, March 1) was transformed into a law without alterations...
...millionaire's bill, and wanted the taxes on admissions and on automobiles entirely stricken out. He moved to recommit the bill. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, made a point of order, that the bill could not be recommitted because the House in passing it had discharged the joint conference committee, ?in short there was no committee to which the bill could be recommitted. Vice President Dawes ruled the point well taken. Mr. Neely appealed to the Senate from the Chair's decision, but the Vice President was upheld 62 to 8. Soon came the final vote...
There can be no other sane reaction than unqualified approval of the joint agreement of the Harvard, Yale and Princeton Athletic Committees to increase their athletic revenues by raising the price of football tickets. Most significant of the new attitude toward sport is the avowed intention to apply the resultant increase in funds "solely to maintenance and development of general athletic facilities and not to increasing the budgets of intercollegiate athletic teams." The idea of "athletics for all" has recently come noticeably to the fore in theory; here is a definite step toward putting this theory into practice...
...general price of tickets for the three Harvard, Yale, and Princeton football games will be raised to five dollars, beginning next fall, according to a joint decision of the Athletic Committees of the three colleges made public yesterday at the H. A. A. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members will, however, be able to purchase single tickets for two dollars each...
Darnley was with her when their baby (James VI) was born; thenceforth he was politically a cypher. Scottish coins bearing their joint effigy were recalled. Feigning reconciliation she tempted him from the security of his father's castle and a crowd of his own retainers. The poor fool was strangled at Kirk-o'-Field by Rizzio's murderers, whom he had betrayed and Mary had pardoned...