Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reorganization of Executive Branch. Reorganisation of executive departments in general conformity with a report recently made by a joint committee of Congress...
...Hjelmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, a leading German financial authority, has a plan for the return to Germany of the ex-German colonies.* He advocates an "international chartered company (like the East India Company) for joint development of Germany's former colonies by Germany, the Allies and the United States...
...passed a similar bill. The salary increases proposed in the House bill were slightly greater and made the necessary expenditure about $64,000,000 a year. However, the House bill did not carry a provision for publicity of campaign contributions. It was necessary to send the two bills into joint conference to arrive at a uniform proposal...
...simply a pleasant incident. I recall it distinctly. It is true the Senator did not kiss the little lady from Decatur. She kissed him. It is also true that every other member of the Joint Committee who was present was genuinely and sincerely envious of the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture...
...joint conference wound up its work on the tax reduction and turned out a compromise that, it was thought, would pass both Houses. The Democratic tit was left in exchange for the Republicans being allowed to retain their tat. Each group was given a sop such as was most likely to secure its vote...