Word: meets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor of the Federal Reserve Board is Roy Archibald Young, 47, solid, capable, popular. When the announcement was made his words were few and cryptic: ". . . [We] have considered how the resources of the Federal Reserve System might best be conserved and made available to meet autumn requirements. The problem has presented difficulties because of certain peculiar conditions." The increased rate was not adopted however for the Reserve Banks of Chicago or Philadelphia...
Then up rose Mrs. Watson and Mrs. Leo R. C. Mitchell to meet Big Helen Wills and Edith Cross. Never was there a clearer demonstration that doubles play is a different game from singles, a game about which Big Helen Wills still has a lot to learn. The English ladies...
That was Paul Bunyan, legendary hero of the logging camps. In his honor, woodsmen from the Northwest camps meet in Paul Bunyan Canyon, near Longview, Wash., for their annual "Rolleo," a carnival featuring the things Paul Bunyan liked to do?log-rolling, timber-topping, axe-twirling, Gargantuan eating, whopper-telling...
...with éclat. As advertising goes, the Foreign Minister's wife could have asked for nothing more explicit than this gathering of U. S. women from New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. Dallas, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cleveland. It was equally edifying for the U. S. ladies to meet the wife of a Foreign Minister, no hausfrau, but a young, elegant, cosmopolite, English speaking Jewess, a woman equipped with the conversation of the polite world, equal to parlor or nightclub...
...Oldsmobile); Walter P. Chrysler, railroad shop superintendent who borrowed $4,300, bought an automobile and spent a winter taking it apart and putting it together again to see what made it go; John Willys, high pressure salesman, who cashed a personal check for $330 at a hotel to meet the pay roll of the Overland Co. so he would not lose his sales agency, and who almost at once became simultaneously president, treasurer, general manager, sales manager, and advertising manager of the nearly bankrupt company...