Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attempt to speak for every "man that ever held a commission in the A. E. F." and the effrontery to speak insultingly of a man of whom General John J. Pershing recently said: "No man was ever faced with a greater problem than our War Secretary in 1917. . . . He met the situation with great courage, with great intelligence. ... I think I may say that no Secretary of War in American history ever realized the relationship which should exist between the Secretary of War and the Commanding General so completely and understandingly. Orders were given in plain language when...
...Met, swore new members, notified the President and the House, elected a new chaplain...
Wayne B. Wheeler is dead. People said that the brains of the Anti-Saloon League died with him last September. Whether that is true or not, the League has not been the same since. Last week, when its bigwigs met in Washington, they could scarcely decide whether to continue the Rev. Dr. Francis Scott McBride as Mr. Wheeler's heir to the title of Superintendent or to substitute Dr. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, who for many a year has been the League's business manager and publisher at Prohibition's birthplace in Westerville, Ohio...
...young Christian women workers, women voters, women mutual-improvers, Christian temperance women, clubwomen, business women, professional women, housewives, "home girls" and a few common everyday women?representatives, in short, of the 34 women's organizations for which the National Council of Women aims to be a guide and interpreter, met last week in Manhattan. President Valeria H. Parker, a doctor of medicine, sex-hygienist and flood relief worker, presided over them all and was reelected...
...Burr could meet. The writer arranged a dinner in Boston at which were present Heman M. Burr '77, father of "Hooks" Burr H. C. Leeds '77, Fearing. Haughton, Burr, Bartol Parker '08, captain of the 1907 team, the writer, and possibly one or two others Haughton and Burr met in this way, and the result is known...