Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrat hosts prepared to rededicate themselves anew to fairness and justice, the bustling Southern city in which they are to meet is disgraced by an unspeakable act of savagery. There is no other way to describe the performance of the eight armed white men who yanked Robert Powell, 24-year-old Negro, from a hospital cot on which he lay with a bullet in his stomach, and hanged him from a bridge just outside the city...
...Nine telegrams over the Hoover signature went forth from the White House last week to nine state governors, asking them to meet in Colorado Springs on June 10 to frame an interstate compact limiting oil production. The nine oil states: Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, California, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, Kansas and New Mexico...
Senator Couzens of Michigan inadvertently let out a Senate secret when he asked why the Rules Committee did not call Senators who had left the executive session to telephone Mr. Lenroot for promptings on how best to meet the attack against...
Senator Reed, through his Secretary Huntley, sent a conciliatory message to the Press Gallery inviting correspondents to meet him for a discussion of "newspaper ethics ... to swap viewpoints." Fifty newsmen signed a retort that they would not confer with him, that they preferred to hear this "thoughts on newspaper ethics" from the Senate floor where he had referred to "the so-called ethics of a so-called profession...
...horde of welcomers made it impossible to descend to the platform. Smiling hugely, broad-shouldered Warrior Calles jumped down from his private car to the tracks. President Portes Gil advanced to meet him, arms extended...